Hip replacement waiting time at Wagga Wagga Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Turvey Park area of New South Wales, 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: 337 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 157 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 25.5%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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 113 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 296 days in 2011–12 to 337 days in 2024–25 — up 14% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], about 121 km away, at 247 days. Here, 25.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 13.0%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Total hip replacement” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Wagga Wagga Hospital	337 days	25.5%	157 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)	181 days	22.8%	158 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	265 days	20.9%	4162 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	89 days	6.6%	3160 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	130 days	13.0%	12180 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 130 days marks the national median.

Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 121 km away247 days
Griffith Base HospitalNSW · about 152 km away166 days
North Canberra HospitalACT · about 158 km away168 days
The Canberra HospitalACT · about 160 km away182 days
Northeast Health WangarattaVIC · about 167 km away75 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 219 km away312 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 224 km away75 days

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Total hip replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Wagga Wagga Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	296	193	116
2012–13	320	196	116
2013–14	295	191	106
2014–15	346	206	109
2015–16	342	212	114
2016–17	314	217	110
2017–18	254	212	119
2018–19	293	220	119
2019–20	327	202	120
2020–21	322	271	179
2021–22	125	231	153
2022–23	366	244	175
2023–24	313	225	135
2024–25	337	265	130

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

All surgery at Wagga Wagga Hospital · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in New South Wales