Surgery Waits

Hip replacement waiting time at Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service

Half of patients at Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service waited 105 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 Mount Gambier 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
105 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
64 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
1.6%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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 46 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 1 day in 2012–13 to 105 days in 2024–25 — up 10400% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is South West Healthcare [Warrnambool], about 161 km away, at 68 days. Here, 1.6% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 13.0%.

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
Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service105 days1.6%64 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)97 days8.2%792 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)89 days6.6%3160 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 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for total hip replacement by financial year at Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0501001502002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service 105SA 97Australia 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 periodMount Gambier and Districts Health Service (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period130116
2012–131108116
2013–1412104106
2014–1526117109
2015–1611144114
2016–173174110
2017–183167119
2018–196137119
2019–2027119120
2020–2141165179
2021–2265168153
2022–2347127175
2023–246499135
2024–2510597130

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

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