Knee replacement waiting time at Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the Ringwood East area of Victoria, 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: 152 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 49 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 34 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 70 days in 2011–12 to 152 days in 2024–25 — up 117% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Box Hill Hospital, about 12 km away, at 124 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]	152 days	not published	49 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	133 days	14.9%	3839 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.

Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 12 km away124 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 18 km away344 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 19 km away313 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 19 km away213 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 21 km away172 days
The AlfredVIC · about 24 km away302 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 25 km away49 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 26 km away225 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	Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	70	123	184
2012–13	177	141	196
2013–14	129	160	194
2014–15	194	147	191
2015–16	190	148	188
2016–17	170	97	195
2017–18	221	114	198
2018–19	173	111	209
2019–20	221	125	223
2020–21	384	180	308
2021–22	197	163	293
2022–23	586	221	308
2023–24	362	181	265
2024–25	152	133	255

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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