Surgery Waits

Knee replacement waiting time at Princess Alexandra Hospital

Half of patients at Princess Alexandra Hospital waited 136 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 Dutton Park 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
136 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
68 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
5.9%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 32 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 210 days in 2011–12 to 136 days in 2024–25 — down 35% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 5.9% 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
Princess Alexandra Hospital136 days5.9%68 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 Princess Alexandra Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays01252503755002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Princess Alexandra Hospital 136QLD 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 periodPrincess Alexandra Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2011–12210120184
2012–13245153196
2013–14415146194
2014–158092191
2015–1610588188
2016–17182140195
2017–18103181198
2018–19219211209
2019–20239233223
2020–21206311308
2021–22111305293
2022–23361334308
2023–24307276265
2024–25136266255

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 Princess Alexandra.

Patients treated
517 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
79.5%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
608 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
56 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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