Surgery Waits

Hip replacement waiting time at Hervey Bay Hospital

Half of patients at Hervey Bay Hospital waited 68 days or less for hip replacement in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Total hip replacement". This public hospital is in the Urraween area of Queensland.

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
68 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
37 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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 131 days in 2011–12 to 68 days in 2024–25 — down 48% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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
Hervey Bay Hospital68 daysnot published37 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)107 days10.7%1890 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)130 days13.0%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.

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 hip replacement by financial year at Hervey Bay Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0631251882502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Hervey Bay Hospital 68QLD 107Australia 130
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 periodHervey Bay Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2011–1213181116
2012–1312078116
2013–143176106
2014–155657109
2015–166463114
2016–176580110
2017–188290119
2018–1914497119
2019–20119101120
2020–21220116179
2021–22104106153
2022–2369145175
2023–2468110135
2024–2568107130

Queensland's quarterly figures for orthopaedic surgery

These are not figures for total hip 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 Hervey Bay.

Patients treated
55 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
96.4%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
134 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
5 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

All surgery at Hervey Bay Hospital · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in Queensland · All surgery waits in Queensland