Total hip replacement waiting time at Royal North Shore Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Total hip 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: 215 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 67 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 11.9%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 88 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 hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal North Shore Hospital	215 days	11.9%	67 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	265 days	20.9%	4162 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 [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 7 km away62 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 7 km away57 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 8 km away26 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 9 km away285 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 9 km away97 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 10 km away225 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 12 km away144 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 14 km away165 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 North Shore Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	80	193	116
2012–13	91	196	116
2013–14	122	191	106
2014–15	52	206	109
2015–16	32	212	114
2016–17	65	217	110
2017–18	80	212	119
2018–19	85	220	119
2019–20	99	202	120
2020–21	157	271	179
2021–22	165	231	153
2022–23	133	244	175
2023–24	203	225	135
2024–25	215	265	130

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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