Total knee replacement waiting time at Maitland Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Total knee replacement at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 440 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 211 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 70.1%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 128 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 124 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Maitland Hospital	440 days	70.1%	211 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	340 days	31.3%	7172 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	255 days	23.2%	17987 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 255 days marks the national median.

John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 26 km away412 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 60 km away270 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 79 km away323 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 116 km away316 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 117 km away317 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 119 km away326 days
Manning HospitalNSW · about 125 km away412 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 126 km away339 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Total knee replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Maitland Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	320	303	184
2012–13	268	297	196
2013–14	187	290	194
2014–15	264	290	191
2015–16	314	290	188
2016–17	316	290	195
2017–18	314	281	198
2018–19	320	281	209
2019–20	343	296	223
2020–21	345	342	308
2021–22	337	337	293
2022–23	267	344	308
2023–24	281	321	265
2024–25	440	340	255

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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