Hip replacement waiting time at Goulburn Base Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Goulburn area of New South Wales was 312 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: 312 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 83 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 106 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 352 days in 2011–12 to 312 days in 2024–25 — down 11% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is North Canberra Hospital, about 80 km away, at 168 days. Here, 0.0% 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
Goulburn Base Hospital	312 days	0.0%	83 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)	181 days	22.8%	158 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.

Bowral HospitalNSW · about 71 km away345 days
North Canberra HospitalACT · about 80 km away168 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 82 km away182 days
The Canberra HospitalACT · about 87 km away182 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 113 km away335 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 143 km away330 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 147 km away348 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 150 km away322 days

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Goulburn Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	352	193	116
2012–13	350	196	116
2013–14	343	191	106
2014–15	332	206	109
2015–16	343	212	114
2016–17	355	217	110
2017–18	353	212	119
2018–19	346	220	119
2019–20	354	202	120
2020–21	329	271	179
2021–22	347	231	153
2022–23	222	244	175
2023–24	237	225	135
2024–25	312	265	130

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

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