Total knee replacement waiting time at The Bendigo 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: 86 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 245 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.4%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 14 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
The Bendigo Hospital	86 days	0.4%	245 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.

Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 98 km away181 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 109 km away71 days
Broadmeadows Health ServiceVIC · about 118 km away198 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 120 km away205 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 128 km away278 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 131 km away313 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 131 km away225 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 131 km away344 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 Bendigo Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	109	123	184
2012–13	129	141	196
2013–14	108	160	194
2014–15	131	147	191
2015–16	131	148	188
2016–17	122	97	195
2017–18	116	114	198
2018–19	142	111	209
2019–20	135	125	223
2020–21	176	180	308
2021–22	192	163	293
2022–23	154	221	308
2023–24	95	181	265
2024–25	86	133	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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