Total knee replacement waiting time at Royal Brisbane & Women's 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: 384 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 52 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 59.6%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 116 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
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital	384 days	59.6%	52 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.

Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation ServiceQLD · about 0 km away283 days
Mater Adult HospitalQLD · about 4 km away222 days
Princess Alexandra HospitalQLD · about 6 km away136 days
The Prince Charles HospitalQLD · about 6 km away164 days
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee HospitalQLD · about 13 km away337 days
Redcliffe HospitalQLD · about 25 km away210 days
Logan HospitalQLD · about 27 km away350 days
Ipswich HospitalQLD · about 33 km away179 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	Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	171	120	184
2012–13	413	153	196
2013–14	270	146	194
2014–15	79	92	191
2015–16	168	88	188
2016–17	95	140	195
2017–18	225	181	198
2018–19	313	211	209
2019–20	343	233	223
2020–21	330	311	308
2021–22	356	305	293
2022–23	425	334	308
2023–24	365	276	265
2024–25	384	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 Royal Brisbane & Women's.

Patients treated: 262 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time: 70.2%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter: 497 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended: 66 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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