Surgery Waits

Knee replacement waiting time at Osborne Park Hospital

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Stirling area of Western Australia was 174 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
174 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
71 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
12.7%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 42 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 98 days in 2011–12 to 174 days in 2024–25 — up 78% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, about 20 km away, at 131 days. Here, 12.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 23.2%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Osborne Park Hospital174 days12.7%71 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)155 days18.8%2087 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 Osborne Park Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Osborne Park Hospital 174WA 155Australia 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 periodOsborne Park Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–1298119184
2012–1396105196
2013–147183194
2014–15124102191
2015–1611094188
2016–1785100195
2017–18110120198
2018–19154135209
2019–20116126223
2020–21179170308
2021–22138184293
2022–23198213308
2023–24218165265
2024–25174155255

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

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