Knee replacement waiting time at Bowral Hospital

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Bowral area of New South Wales was 473 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: 473 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 78 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 80.8%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 126 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 312 days in 2011–12 to 473 days in 2024–25 — up 52% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wollongong Hospital, about 43 km away, at 365 days. Here, 80.8% 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
Bowral Hospital	473 days	80.8%	78 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	340 days	31.3%	7172 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	255 days	23.2%	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.

Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 43 km away365 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 45 km away376 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 71 km away332 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 78 km away347 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 81 km away302 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 82 km away371 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 82 km away359 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 85 km away341 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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 period	Bowral Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	312	303	184
2012–13	321	297	196
2013–14	336	290	194
2014–15	300	290	191
2015–16	306	290	188
2016–17	317	290	195
2017–18	320	281	198
2018–19	329	281	209
2019–20	357	296	223
2020–21	346	342	308
2021–22	458	337	293
2022–23	512	344	308
2023–24	395	321	265
2024–25	473	340	255

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

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