Surgery Waits

Hip replacement waiting time at Wyong Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Kanwal area of New South Wales was 105 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
105 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
112 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
6.3%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 46 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 249 days in 2011–12 to 105 days in 2024–25 — down 58% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 6.3% 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
Wyong Hospital105 days6.3%112 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)265 days20.9%4162 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)130 days13.0%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.

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 hip replacement by financial year at Wyong Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Wyong Hospital 105NSW 265Australia 130
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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 periodWyong Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12249193116
2012–13197196116
2013–14242191106
2014–15248206109
2015–16284212114
2016–17242217110
2017–18230212119
2018–19262220119
2019–20198202120
2020–21344271179
2021–22371231153
2022–23321244175
2023–24111225135
2024–25105265130

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

All surgery at Wyong Hospital · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in New South Wales