Hip replacement waiting time at Fairfield Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Prairiewood area of New South Wales was 348 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 348 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 175 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 33.7%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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 116 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 259 days in 2011–12 to 348 days in 2024–25 — up 34% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 10 km away, at 109 days. Here, 33.7% 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
Fairfield Hospital	348 days	33.7%	175 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	265 days	20.9%	4162 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.

Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 9 km away349 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 10 km away109 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 13 km away334 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 13 km away347 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 18 km away97 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 19 km away225 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 19 km away165 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 21 km away330 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 hip replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Fairfield Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	259	193	116
2012–13	237	196	116
2013–14	246	191	106
2014–15	265	206	109
2015–16	263	212	114
2016–17	252	217	110
2017–18	253	212	119
2018–19	299	220	119
2019–20	294	202	120
2020–21	327	271	179
2021–22	393	231	153
2022–23	377	244	175
2023–24	287	225	135
2024–25	348	265	130

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

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