Surgery Waits

Knee replacement waiting time at Wagga Wagga Hospital

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Turvey Park area of New South Wales was 354 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
354 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
342 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
30.1%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 104 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 335 days in 2011–12 to 354 days in 2024–25 — up 6% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Griffith Base Hospital, about 152 km away, at 141 days. Here, 30.1% 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
Wagga Wagga Hospital354 days30.1%342 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)388 days53.0%202 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)340 days31.3%7172 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)133 days14.9%3839 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.

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

Median wait for total knee replacement by financial year at Wagga Wagga Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01252503755002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Wagga Wagga Hospital 354NSW 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 periodWagga Wagga Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12335303184
2012–13331297196
2013–14332290194
2014–15360290191
2015–16351290188
2016–17349290195
2017–18335281198
2018–19334281209
2019–20353296223
2020–21377342308
2021–22345337293
2022–23469344308
2023–24359321265
2024–25354340255

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

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