Total knee replacement waiting time at North West Regional 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: 214 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 98 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 19.4%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 57 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
North West Regional Hospital	214 days	19.4%	98 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	161 days	6.8%	559 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.

Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 114 km away188 days
Royal Hobart HospitalTAS · about 236 km away124 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 272 km away81 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 319 km away165 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 320 km away195 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 328 km away65 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 329 km away132 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 346 km away213 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

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	North West Regional Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	74	476	184
2012–13	385	615	196
2013–14	385	540	194
2014–15	321	374	191
2015–16	269	299	188
2016–17	260	320	195
2017–18	206	233	198
2018–19	248	258	209
2019–20	361	394	223
2020–21	441	519	308
2021–22	481	425	293
2022–23	386	381	308
2023–24	300	209	265
2024–25	214	161	255

What is not here

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

All surgery at North West Regional Hospital · Total knee replacement across Australia · Total knee replacement in Tasmania