Hip replacement waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Carlton area of Victoria, 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: 193 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 101 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 10.9%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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 80 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 99 days in 2011–12 to 193 days in 2024–25 — up 95% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], about 2 km away, at 41 days. Here, 10.9% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 13.0%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]	193 days	10.9%	101 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	89 days	6.6%	3160 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away41 days
The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away78 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 6 km away144 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 9 km away107 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away187 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 10 km away242 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 14 km away90 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 16 km away151 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	Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	99	99	116
2012–13	221	105	116
2013–14	183	111	106
2014–15	174	105	109
2015–16	219	115	114
2016–17	115	83	110
2017–18	141	89	119
2018–19	84	85	119
2019–20	102	92	120
2020–21	86	119	179
2021–22	138	122	153
2022–23	169	138	175
2023–24	175	107	135
2024–25	193	89	130

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

All surgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in Victoria