Knee replacement waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Fremantle area of Western Australia was 131 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: 131 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 267 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.5%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 128 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 29 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 249 days in 2011–12 to 131 days in 2024–25 — down 47% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Rockingham General Hospital, about 26 km away, at 120 days. Here, 1.5% 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
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service	131 days	1.5%	267 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	155 days	18.8%	2087 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away321 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 16 km away361 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 20 km away174 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 26 km away120 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away124 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 30 km away388 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 36 km away174 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 53 km away59 days

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

How the wait has changed

Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
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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	Fremantle Hospital and Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	249	119	184
2012–13	160	105	196
2013–14	107	83	194
2014–15	127	102	191
2015–16	66	94	188
2016–17	85	100	195
2017–18	135	120	198
2018–19	140	135	209
2019–20	112	126	223
2020–21	117	170	308
2021–22	195	184	293
2022–23	196	213	308
2023–24	127	165	265
2024–25	131	155	255

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

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