Hip replacement waiting time at Gosford Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Gosford area of New South Wales was 232 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: 232 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 88 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 15.9%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 91 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 162 days in 2011–12 to 232 days in 2024–25 — up 43% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wyong Hospital, about 22 km away, at 105 days. Here, 15.9% 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
Gosford Hospital	232 days	15.9%	88 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.

Wyong HospitalNSW · about 22 km away105 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 38 km away313 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 38 km away285 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 47 km away215 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 48 km away225 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 52 km away97 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 52 km away62 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 53 km away276 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	Gosford Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	162	193	116
2012–13	183	196	116
2013–14	309	191	106
2014–15	140	206	109
2015–16	208	212	114
2016–17	245	217	110
2017–18	189	212	119
2018–19	245	220	119
2019–20	198	202	120
2020–21	305	271	179
2021–22	217	231	153
2022–23	340	244	175
2023–24	232	225	135
2024–25	232	265	130

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

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