Hip replacement waiting time at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Kings Park area of Western Australia was 204 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: 204 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 155 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 23.2%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 82 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 92 days in 2011–12 to 204 days in 2024–25 — up 122% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Osborne Park Hospital, about 9 km away, at 160 days. Here, 23.2% 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
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	204 days	23.2%	155 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	125 days	10.6%	1495 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away211 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 9 km away160 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away86 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 20 km away271 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away173 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away104 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 36 km away104 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 63 km away56 days

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

How the wait has changed

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
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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	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	92	95	116
2012–13	93	92	116
2013–14	74	69	106
2014–15	90	84	109
2015–16	98	78	114
2016–17	85	86	110
2017–18	72	90	119
2018–19	106	102	119
2019–20	66	89	120
2020–21	120	124	179
2021–22	150	114	153
2022–23	173	150	175
2023–24	156	130	135
2024–25	204	125	130

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

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