Knee replacement waiting time at Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the Port Augusta 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: 88 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 32 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 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 76 days in 2011–12 to 88 days in 2024–25 — up 16% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Clare Hospital, about 166 km away, at 36 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
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services	88 days	not published	32 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	147 days	14.7%	1322 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.

Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 61 km away180 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 77 km away110 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 166 km away36 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 262 km away114 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 272 km away99 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 273 km away290 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 278 km away183 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 289 km away130 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.

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	Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	76	173	184
2012–13	126	153	196
2013–14	179	161	194
2014–15	117	212	191
2015–16	98	222	188
2016–17	119	254	195
2017–18	168	273	198
2018–19	136	244	209
2019–20	145	189	223
2020–21	87	318	308
2021–22	124	307	293
2022–23	91	230	308
2023–24	63	167	265
2024–25	88	147	255

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

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