Total knee replacement waiting time at Prince of Wales 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: 358 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 166 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 39.2%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 105 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
Prince of Wales Hospital	358 days	39.2%	166 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	340 days	31.3%	7172 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 5 km away76 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 6 km away24 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 6 km away91 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 12 km away339 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away278 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away181 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 17 km away302 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 19 km away317 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 knee replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Prince of Wales Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	286	303	184
2012–13	327	297	196
2013–14	325	290	194
2014–15	314	290	191
2015–16	347	290	188
2016–17	332	290	195
2017–18	328	281	198
2018–19	327	281	209
2019–20	323	296	223
2020–21	334	342	308
2021–22	270	337	293
2022–23	281	344	308
2023–24	267	321	265
2024–25	358	340	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 Prince of Wales Hospital · Total knee replacement across Australia · Total knee replacement in New South Wales