Surgery Waits

Hip replacement waiting time at Tamworth Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the North Tamworth area of New South Wales was 279 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
279 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
49 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 103 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 120 days in 2011–12 to 279 days in 2024–25 — up 133% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Grafton Base Hospital, about 248 km away, at 213 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Tamworth Hospital279 daysnot published49 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)265 days20.9%4162 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for total hip replacement by financial year at Tamworth Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Tamworth Hospital 279NSW 265Australia 130
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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 periodTamworth Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12120193116
2012–13168196116
2013–1486191106
2014–15118206109
2015–1669212114
2016–17231217110
2017–18187212119
2018–19172220119
2019–20200202120
2020–21392271179
2021–22332231153
2022–23368244175
2023–24342225135
2024–25279265130

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

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