Hip replacement waiting time at Port Pirie Regional Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Port Pirie 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: 85 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 40 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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 174 days in 2011–12 to 85 days in 2024–25 — down 51% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Clare Hospital, about 92 km away, at 31 days.

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
Port Pirie Regional Health Service	85 days	not published	40 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.

Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 43 km away194 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 92 km away31 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 185 km away85 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 195 km away92 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 196 km away204 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 201 km away107 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 212 km away63 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 223 km away91 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	Port Pirie Regional Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	174	130	116
2012–13	102	108	116
2013–14	175	104	106
2014–15	83	117	109
2015–16	279	144	114
2016–17	217	174	110
2017–18	223	167	119
2018–19	133	137	119
2019–20	186	119	120
2020–21	166	165	179
2021–22	223	168	153
2022–23	111	127	175
2023–24	140	99	135
2024–25	85	97	130

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

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