Total knee replacement waiting time at Princess Alexandra 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: 136 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 68 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 5.9%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 32 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
Princess Alexandra Hospital	136 days	5.9%	68 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	266 days	21.5%	2712 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.

Mater Adult HospitalQLD · about 2 km away222 days
Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation ServiceQLD · about 6 km away283 days
Royal Brisbane & Women's HospitalQLD · about 6 km away384 days
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee HospitalQLD · about 7 km away337 days
The Prince Charles HospitalQLD · about 12 km away164 days
Logan HospitalQLD · about 22 km away350 days
Ipswich HospitalQLD · about 30 km away179 days
Redcliffe HospitalQLD · about 31 km away210 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	Princess Alexandra Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	210	120	184
2012–13	245	153	196
2013–14	415	146	194
2014–15	80	92	191
2015–16	105	88	188
2016–17	182	140	195
2017–18	103	181	198
2018–19	219	211	209
2019–20	239	233	223
2020–21	206	311	308
2021–22	111	305	293
2022–23	361	334	308
2023–24	307	276	265
2024–25	136	266	255

Queensland's quarterly figures for orthopaedic surgery

These are not figures for total knee replacement. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Princess Alexandra.

Patients treated: 517 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time: 79.5%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter: 608 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended: 56 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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