Surgery Waits

Knee replacement waiting time at Nambour General Hospital

Half of patients at Nambour General Hospital waited 295 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 Nambour 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
295 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
126 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
23.8%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 128 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 74 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 192 days in 2011–12 to 295 days in 2024–25 — up 54% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Redcliffe Hospital, about 69 km away, at 210 days. Here, 23.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 23.2%.

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
Nambour General Hospital295 days23.8%126 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)266 days21.5%2712 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 Nambour General Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Nambour General Hospital 295QLD 266Australia 255
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 periodNambour General Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2011–12192120184
2012–13214153196
2013–14134146194
2014–153592191
2015–163788188
2016–17120140195
2017–18209181198
2018–19124211209
2019–20147233223
2020–21300311308
2021–22181305293
2022–23161334308
2023–24274276265
2024–25295266255

Queensland's quarterly figures for orthopaedic surgery

These are not figures for total knee 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 Nambour.

Patients treated
213 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
54.5%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
696 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
75 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

All surgery at Nambour General Hospital · Knee replacement across Australia · Knee replacement in Queensland · All surgery waits in Queensland