Hip replacement waiting time at Westmead Hospital
Half of patients at Westmead Hospital waited 109 days or less for hip replacement in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Total hip replacement". This public hospital is in the Westmead 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
- 109 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 30 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 52 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 69 days in 2013–14 to 109 days in 2024–25 — up 58% — while the national median rose from 106 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 10 km away, at 97 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Total hip 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westmead Hospital | 109 days | not published | 30 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 265 days | 20.9% | 4162 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 130 days | 13.0% | 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.
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 7 km away: 349 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 9 km away: 225 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 348 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 97 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 347 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 334 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 313 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 165 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Westmead Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Westmead Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not published | 193 | 116 |
| 2012–13 | not published | 196 | 116 |
| 2013–14 | 69 | 191 | 106 |
| 2014–15 | 107 | 206 | 109 |
| 2015–16 | 94 | 212 | 114 |
| 2016–17 | 216 | 217 | 110 |
| 2017–18 | 91 | 212 | 119 |
| 2018–19 | 211 | 220 | 119 |
| 2019–20 | 96 | 202 | 120 |
| 2020–21 | 130 | 271 | 179 |
| 2021–22 | 371 | 231 | 153 |
| 2022–23 | 240 | 244 | 175 |
| 2023–24 | 114 | 225 | 135 |
| 2024–25 | 109 | 265 | 130 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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