Surgery Waits

Knee replacement waiting time at Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Mount Barker area of South Australia was 71 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
71 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
18 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 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 281 days in 2011–12 to 71 days in 2024–25 — down 75% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is South Coast District Hospital, about 58 km away, at 34 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital71 daysnot published18 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)147 days14.7%1322 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 Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital 71SA 147Australia 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 periodMount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12281173184
2012–13257153196
2013–14235161194
2014–1589212191
2015–1655222188
2016–17103254195
2017–1868273198
2018–1927244209
2019–2093189223
2020–2167318308
2021–2292307293
2022–2357230308
2023–2463167265
2024–2571147255

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

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