Knee replacement waiting time at Port Lincoln Health Service
Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the Port Lincoln 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
- 39 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 19 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 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 42 days in 2022–23 to 39 days in 2024–25 — down 7% — while the national median fell from 308 days to 255 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Lincoln Health Service | 39 days | not published | 19 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
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
- Port Lincoln Health Service
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Port Lincoln Health Service (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not reported for this period | 173 | 184 |
| 2012–13 | not reported for this period | 153 | 196 |
| 2013–14 | not reported for this period | 161 | 194 |
| 2014–15 | not reported for this period | 212 | 191 |
| 2015–16 | not reported for this period | 222 | 188 |
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 254 | 195 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 273 | 198 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 244 | 209 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | 189 | 223 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | 318 | 308 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 307 | 293 |
| 2022–23 | 42 | 230 | 308 |
| 2023–24 | 55 | 167 | 265 |
| 2024–25 | 39 | 147 | 255 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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