Knee replacement waiting time at St John of God Midland Public Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the Midland 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: 388 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 134 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 56.0%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 118 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 33 days in 2015–16 to 388 days in 2024–25 — up 1076% — while the national median rose from 188 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, about 15 km away, at 361 days. Here, 56.0% 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
St John of God Midland Public Hospital	388 days	56.0%	134 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 15 km away361 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 19 km away174 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 20 km away321 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away124 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 28 km away174 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 30 km away131 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 49 km away120 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 75 km away59 days

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

How the wait has changed

St John of God Midland Public 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	St John of God Midland Public Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	119	184
2012–13	not reported for this period	105	196
2013–14	not reported for this period	83	194
2014–15	not reported for this period	102	191
2015–16	33	94	188
2016–17	48	100	195
2017–18	118	120	198
2018–19	213	135	209
2019–20	258	126	223
2020–21	378	170	308
2021–22	398	184	293
2022–23	443	213	308
2023–24	397	165	265
2024–25	388	155	255

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

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