Knee replacement waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre
Half of patients at Flinders Medical Centre waited 130 days or less for knee replacement in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Total knee replacement". This public hospital is in the Bedford Park area of South Australia.
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.
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
| 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 Hospital, SA · about 11 km away: 183 days
Noarlunga Hospital, SA · about 15 km away: 330 days
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 16 km away: 290 days
Modbury Hospital, SA · about 24 km away: 99 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, SA · about 28 km away: 71 days
Lyell McEwin Hospital, SA · about 32 km away: 114 days
South Coast District Hospital, SA · about 60 km away: 34 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, SA · about 66 km away: 98 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Flinders Medical Centre
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| 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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