Knee replacement waiting time at The Alfred

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the South Yarra area of Victoria, 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: 302 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 86 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 11.6%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 76 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 95 days in 2011–12 to 302 days in 2024–25 — up 218% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], about 4 km away, at 49 days. Here, 11.6% 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
The Alfred	302 days	11.6%	86 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	133 days	14.9%	3839 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 4 km away49 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away225 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 8 km away131 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 10 km away278 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 11 km away172 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 12 km away313 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away344 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away124 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	The Alfred (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	95	123	184
2012–13	83	141	196
2013–14	93	160	194
2014–15	88	147	191
2015–16	105	148	188
2016–17	101	97	195
2017–18	231	114	198
2018–19	252	111	209
2019–20	245	125	223
2020–21	382	180	308
2021–22	305	163	293
2022–23	520	221	308
2023–24	405	181	265
2024–25	302	133	255

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

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