Total knee replacement waiting time at Wollongong 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: 365 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 397 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 49.1%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 110 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
Wollongong Hospital	365 days	49.1%	397 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	340 days	31.3%	7172 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.

Bowral HospitalNSW · about 43 km away473 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 48 km away302 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 56 km away376 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 56 km away371 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 56 km away347 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 60 km away278 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 63 km away359 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 64 km away240 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	Wollongong Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	329	303	184
2012–13	349	297	196
2013–14	337	290	194
2014–15	329	290	191
2015–16	351	290	188
2016–17	339	290	195
2017–18	362	281	198
2018–19	352	281	209
2019–20	329	296	223
2020–21	424	342	308
2021–22	371	337	293
2022–23	423	344	308
2023–24	372	321	265
2024–25	365	340	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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