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Hip replacement waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for hip replacement in Victoria public hospitals was 89 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 130 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Total hip replacement".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

29 public hospitals in Victoria reported hip replacement in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

3 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 130 days marks the national median.

Total hip replacement in Victoria public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 41 days 1.9% 216 surgeries
2 Bass Coast Health 53 days 0.0% 84 surgeries
3 Frankston Public Surgical Centre 57 days 0.0% 174 surgeries
4 The Bendigo Hospital 62 days 0.0% 232 surgeries
5 South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] 68 days 0.0% 87 surgeries
6 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 75 days 4.7% 64 surgeries
6 Northeast Health Wangaratta 75 days 2.4% 168 surgeries
6 West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] 75 days 12.8% 148 surgeries
9 The Alfred 78 days 3.5% 85 surgeries
10 Frankston Hospital 85 days 3.6% 138 surgeries
11 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 86 days 10.2% 176 surgeries
12 University Hospital Geelong 87 days 0.0% 339 surgeries
13 Box Hill Hospital 90 days 4.6% 196 surgeries
14 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 104 days 3.4% 87 surgeries
15 Williamstown Hospital 107 days 3.4% 87 surgeries
16 Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] 112 days not published 37 surgeries
17 Dandenong Hospital 122 days not published 31 surgeries
18 Western Hospital [Footscray] 144 days not published 47 surgeries
19 Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] 151 days 4.0% 177 surgeries
20 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 156 days 8.2% 73 surgeries
21 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 187 days 24.1% 174 surgeries
22 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 193 days 10.9% 101 surgeries
23 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 242 days 31.4% 70 surgeries
24 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 247 days 40.3% 62 surgeries
25 Sandringham Hospital 261 days 4.2% 71 surgeries
26 Werribee Mercy Hospital 274 days not published 30 surgeries
unranked Broadmeadows Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh] not published not published not published
unranked Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] not published not published not published

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Box Hill · near Clayton · near Frankston · near Heidelberg · near Prahran · near St Albans.

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The median wait for hip replacement in Victoria public hospitals was 89 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Hip replacement waiting times in Victoria", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/hip-replacement/vic/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/hip-replacement/vic/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Victoria.