Surgery Waits

Knee replacement waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Waitara area of New South Wales was 316 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
316 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
144 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
11.1%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 79 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 251 days in 2011–12 to 316 days in 2024–25 — up 26% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Ryde Hospital, about 11 km away, at 274 days. Here, 11.1% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 23.2%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Total knee 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 knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital316 days11.1%144 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)340 days31.3%7172 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)255 days23.2%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for total knee replacement by financial year at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 316NSW 340Australia 255
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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 periodHornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12251303184
2012–13259297196
2013–14182290194
2014–15218290191
2015–16317290188
2016–17288290195
2017–18277281198
2018–19286281209
2019–20273296223
2020–21315342308
2021–22343337293
2022–23395344308
2023–24335321265
2024–25316340255

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

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