Hip replacement waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Perth area of Western Australia, 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: 211 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 111 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 32.4%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 86 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 108 days in 2011–12 to 211 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 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 5 km away, at 204 days. Here, 32.4% 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 Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	211 days	32.4%	111 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	125 days	10.6%	1495 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 5 km away204 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away160 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 15 km away271 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away86 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 25 km away104 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away173 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 39 km away104 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 65 km away56 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
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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 Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	108	95	116
2012–13	154	92	116
2013–14	100	69	106
2014–15	124	84	109
2015–16	136	78	114
2016–17	137	86	110
2017–18	87	90	119
2018–19	111	102	119
2019–20	100	89	120
2020–21	170	124	179
2021–22	205	114	153
2022–23	220	150	175
2023–24	235	130	135
2024–25	211	125	130

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

All surgery at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in Western Australia