Hip replacement waiting time at Northeast Health Wangaratta

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Wangaratta 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: 75 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 168 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.4%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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 90 days in 2011–12 to 75 days in 2024–25 — down 17% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Bendigo Hospital, about 187 km away, at 62 days. Here, 2.4% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 13.0%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Total hip replacement” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Northeast Health Wangaratta	75 days	2.4%	168 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	265 days	20.9%	4162 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	89 days	6.6%	3160 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.

Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 56 km away247 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 81 km away75 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 167 km away337 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 185 km away104 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 187 km away62 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 187 km away112 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 192 km away242 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 192 km away187 days

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Northeast Health Wangaratta (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	90	99	116
2012–13	315	105	116
2013–14	209	111	106
2014–15	102	105	109
2015–16	136	115	114
2016–17	91	83	110
2017–18	107	89	119
2018–19	146	85	119
2019–20	87	92	120
2020–21	75	119	179
2021–22	113	122	153
2022–23	52	138	175
2023–24	84	107	135
2024–25	75	89	130

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

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