Surgery Waits

Knee replacement waiting time at Modbury Hospital

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Modbury area of South Australia was 99 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
99 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
288 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
14.6%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 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 219 days in 2011–12 to 99 days in 2024–25 — down 55% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, about 32 km away, at 71 days. Here, 14.6% 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
Modbury Hospital99 days14.6%288 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)147 days14.7%1322 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 Modbury Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Modbury Hospital 99SA 147Australia 255
  • Modbury Hospital
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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 periodModbury Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12219173184
2012–13104153196
2013–14194161194
2014–15335212191
2015–16375222188
2016–17not reported for this period254195
2017–18not reported for this period273198
2018–19not reported for this period244209
2019–20not reported for this period189223
2020–21not published318308
2021–22332307293
2022–23337230308
2023–24276167265
2024–2599147255

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

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