Knee replacement waiting time at The Northern Hospital [Epping]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the Lalor 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: 205 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 90 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 16.7%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 53 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 52 days in 2011–12 to 205 days in 2024–25 — up 294% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Broadmeadows Health Service, about 10 km away, at 198 days. Here, 16.7% 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 Northern Hospital [Epping]	205 days	16.7%	90 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.

Broadmeadows Health ServiceVIC · about 10 km away198 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 12 km away313 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away344 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 17 km away225 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 17 km away49 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 19 km away278 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 20 km away124 days
The AlfredVIC · about 22 km away302 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 Northern Hospital [Epping] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	52	123	184
2012–13	69	141	196
2013–14	92	160	194
2014–15	149	147	191
2015–16	328	148	188
2016–17	240	97	195
2017–18	137	114	198
2018–19	68	111	209
2019–20	71	125	223
2020–21	64	180	308
2021–22	182	163	293
2022–23	173	221	308
2023–24	136	181	265
2024–25	205	133	255

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

All surgery at The Northern Hospital [Epping] · Knee replacement across Australia · Knee replacement in Victoria