Hip replacement waiting time at Shoalhaven Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the West Nowra area of New South Wales, 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: 182 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 113 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 27.4%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 76 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 362 days in 2011–12 to 182 days in 2024–25 — down 50% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sutherland Hospital, about 104 km away, at 181 days. Here, 27.4% 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
Shoalhaven Hospital	182 days	27.4%	113 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.

Bowral HospitalNSW · about 45 km away345 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 56 km away335 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 82 km away312 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 104 km away181 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 111 km away347 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 115 km away165 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 116 km away348 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 121 km away144 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	Shoalhaven Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	362	193	116
2012–13	332	196	116
2013–14	286	191	106
2014–15	298	206	109
2015–16	338	212	114
2016–17	116	217	110
2017–18	342	212	119
2018–19	300	220	119
2019–20	124	202	120
2020–21	382	271	179
2021–22	290	231	153
2022–23	226	244	175
2023–24	126	225	135
2024–25	182	265	130

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

All surgery at Shoalhaven Hospital · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in New South Wales