Knee replacement waiting time at West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the Warragul 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: 195 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 124 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 19.4%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 51 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 321 days in 2011–12 to 195 days in 2024–25 — down 39% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon], about 48 km away, at 165 days. Here, 19.4% 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
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]	195 days	19.4%	124 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.

Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 48 km away165 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 57 km away81 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 66 km away213 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 69 km away65 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 70 km away132 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 72 km away152 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 81 km away172 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 81 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	West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	321	123	184
2012–13	374	141	196
2013–14	319	160	194
2014–15	257	147	191
2015–16	250	148	188
2016–17	86	97	195
2017–18	127	114	198
2018–19	115	111	209
2019–20	191	125	223
2020–21	59	180	308
2021–22	36	163	293
2022–23	15	221	308
2023–24	84	181	265
2024–25	195	133	255

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

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