Knee replacement waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 130 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: 130 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 31 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 318 days in 2016–17 to 130 days in 2024–25 — down 59% — while the national median rose from 195 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Modbury Hospital, about 24 km away, at 99 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Flinders Medical Centre	130 days	not published	31 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	147 days	14.7%	1322 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 11 km away183 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 15 km away330 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away290 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 24 km away99 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 28 km away71 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 32 km away114 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 60 km away34 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 66 km away98 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	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not published	173	184
2012–13	not reported for this period	153	196
2013–14	not reported for this period	161	194
2014–15	not reported for this period	212	191
2015–16	not reported for this period	222	188
2016–17	318	254	195
2017–18	384	273	198
2018–19	360	244	209
2019–20	348	189	223
2020–21	498	318	308
2021–22	378	307	293
2022–23	308	230	308
2023–24	203	167	265
2024–25	130	147	255

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

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