Hip replacement waiting time at Modbury Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Modbury area of South Australia, 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: 92 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 128 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 7.8%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 123 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 fallen from 217 days in 2011–12 to 92 days in 2024–25 — down 58% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lyell McEwin Hospital, about 10 km away, at 85 days. Here, 7.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 13.0%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Modbury Hospital	92 days	7.8%	128 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	97 days	8.2%	792 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	130 days	13.0%	12180 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 130 days marks the national median.

Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 10 km away85 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 13 km away107 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 15 km away204 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 24 km away63 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 32 km away38 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 38 km away91 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 63 km away73 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 81 km away273 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 hip replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Modbury Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	217	130	116
2012–13	149	108	116
2013–14	262	104	106
2014–15	342	117	109
2015–16	419	144	114
2016–17	not reported for this period	174	110
2017–18	not reported for this period	167	119
2018–19	not reported for this period	137	119
2019–20	not reported for this period	119	120
2020–21	not published	165	179
2021–22	309	168	153
2022–23	341	127	175
2023–24	112	99	135
2024–25	92	97	130

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

All surgery at Modbury Hospital · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in South Australia