Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at University Hospital Geelong

The median wait for shoulder joint replacement at this public hospital in the Geelong area of Victoria was 154 days in 2024–25.

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: 154 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 20 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 89 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 40 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 219 days in 2016–17 to 154 days in 2024–25 — down 30% — while the national median rose from 147 days to 174 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Williamstown Hospital, about 56 km away, at 107 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Shoulder joint replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
University Hospital Geelong	154 days	not published	20 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	116 days	11.8%	575 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	174 days	20.4%	2417 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 174 days marks the national median.

Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 56 km away107 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 61 km away18 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 61 km away104 days
The AlfredVIC · about 64 km away52 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 66 km away75 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 66 km away282 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 67 km away88 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 67 km away67 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Shoulder joint replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	University Hospital Geelong (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	219	126	147
2017–18	121	116	152
2018–19	92	137	163
2019–20	145	108	154
2020–21	179	164	246
2021–22	not published	116	218
2022–23	390	225	254
2023–24	225	156	192
2024–25	154	116	174

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

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