Total knee replacement waiting time at Shoalhaven Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Total knee 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: 376 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 158 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 54.4%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 128 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 114 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 knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Shoalhaven Hospital	376 days	54.4%	158 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	340 days	31.3%	7172 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.

Bowral HospitalNSW · about 45 km away473 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 56 km away365 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 82 km away332 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 104 km away302 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 110 km away347 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 111 km away371 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 115 km away278 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 116 km away359 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 knee replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Shoalhaven Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	360	303	184
2012–13	329	297	196
2013–14	299	290	194
2014–15	354	290	191
2015–16	372	290	188
2016–17	360	290	195
2017–18	356	281	198
2018–19	354	281	209
2019–20	366	296	223
2020–21	412	342	308
2021–22	311	337	293
2022–23	319	344	308
2023–24	360	321	265
2024–25	376	340	255

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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