Knee replacement waiting time at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the Kings Park 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: 321 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 160 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 36.9%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 128 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 83 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 321 days in 2024–25 — up 179% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Osborne Park Hospital, about 9 km away, at 174 days. Here, 36.9% 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
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	321 days	36.9%	160 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away361 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 9 km away174 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away131 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 20 km away388 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away174 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away124 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 36 km away120 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 63 km away59 days

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

How the wait has changed

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
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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	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	115	119	184
2012–13	107	105	196
2013–14	81	83	194
2014–15	106	102	191
2015–16	113	94	188
2016–17	120	100	195
2017–18	115	120	198
2018–19	125	135	209
2019–20	100	126	223
2020–21	191	170	308
2021–22	224	184	293
2022–23	274	213	308
2023–24	272	165	265
2024–25	321	155	255

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

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