Hip replacement waiting time at Albany Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia was 172 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: 172 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 77 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 13.0%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 72 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 38 days in 2011–12 to 172 days in 2024–25 — up 353% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bunbury Hospital, about 276 km away, at 137 days. Here, 13.0% 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
Albany Hospital	172 days	13.0%	77 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.

Bunbury HospitalWA · about 276 km away137 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 281 km away142 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 339 km away56 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 360 km away104 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 364 km away104 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 383 km away86 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 388 km away271 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 388 km away211 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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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	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	38	95	116
2012–13	85	92	116
2013–14	152	69	106
2014–15	103	84	109
2015–16	107	78	114
2016–17	155	86	110
2017–18	149	90	119
2018–19	145	102	119
2019–20	269	89	120
2020–21	341	124	179
2021–22	243	114	153
2022–23	185	150	175
2023–24	121	130	135
2024–25	172	125	130

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

All surgery at Albany Hospital · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in Western Australia