Knee replacement waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee 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: 361 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 168 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 48.2%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 108 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 115 days in 2011–12 to 361 days in 2024–25 — up 214% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 5 km away, at 321 days. Here, 48.2% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 23.2%.

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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 Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	361 days	48.2%	168 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	155 days	18.8%	2087 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 5 km away321 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away174 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 15 km away388 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away131 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 25 km away124 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away174 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 39 km away120 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 65 km away59 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 knee 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	115	119	184
2012–13	241	105	196
2013–14	173	83	194
2014–15	149	102	191
2015–16	212	94	188
2016–17	232	100	195
2017–18	121	120	198
2018–19	169	135	209
2019–20	146	126	223
2020–21	275	170	308
2021–22	384	184	293
2022–23	394	213	308
2023–24	324	165	265
2024–25	361	155	255

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

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