Knee replacement waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]
Half of patients at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] waited 76 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 Darlinghurst area of New South Wales.
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
- 76 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 73 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 5.5%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 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 84 days in 2011–12 to 76 days in 2024–25 — down 10% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 4 km away, at 24 days. Here, 5.5% 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] | 76 days | 5.5% | 73 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 340 days | 31.3% | 7172 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 255 days | 23.2% | 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.
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 4 km away: 24 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, NSW · about 4 km away: 91 days
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 5 km away: 358 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 7 km away: 339 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 12 km away: 278 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 181 days
Northern Beaches Hospital, NSW · about 14 km away: 317 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 274 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 84 | 303 | 184 |
| 2012–13 | 129 | 297 | 196 |
| 2013–14 | 122 | 290 | 194 |
| 2014–15 | 127 | 290 | 191 |
| 2015–16 | 135 | 290 | 188 |
| 2016–17 | 174 | 290 | 195 |
| 2017–18 | 119 | 281 | 198 |
| 2018–19 | 211 | 281 | 209 |
| 2019–20 | 100 | 296 | 223 |
| 2020–21 | 200 | 342 | 308 |
| 2021–22 | 435 | 337 | 293 |
| 2022–23 | 241 | 344 | 308 |
| 2023–24 | 112 | 321 | 265 |
| 2024–25 | 76 | 340 | 255 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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