Surgery Waits

Knee replacement waiting time at Bundaberg Base Hospital

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Bundaberg West area of Queensland was 108 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
108 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
108 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
20.4%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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 185 days in 2011–12 to 108 days in 2024–25 — down 42% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 20.4% 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
Bundaberg Base Hospital108 days20.4%108 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)266 days21.5%2712 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for total knee replacement by financial year at Bundaberg Base Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Bundaberg Base Hospital 108QLD 266Australia 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 periodBundaberg Base Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2011–12185120184
2012–13170153196
2013–1477146194
2014–156392191
2015–166088188
2016–17133140195
2017–18146181198
2018–19184211209
2019–20152233223
2020–21252311308
2021–22235305293
2022–23384334308
2023–24149276265
2024–25108266255

Queensland's quarterly figures for orthopaedic surgery

These are not figures for total knee replacement. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Bundaberg.

Patients treated
170 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
60.6%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
439 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
30 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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