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Knee replacement waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for knee replacement in New South Wales public hospitals was 340 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 255 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Total knee replacement".

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

45 public hospitals in New South Wales reported knee 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 knee replacement" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

2 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 255 days marks the national median.

Total knee replacement in New South Wales 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 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 24 days not published 23 surgeries
2 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 76 days 5.5% 73 surgeries
3 Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics 91 days 0.0% 188 surgeries
4 Tweed Valley Hospital 97 days 2.2% 271 surgeries
5 Griffith Base Hospital 141 days not published 12 surgeries
6 Concord Repatriation Hospital 181 days 0.0% 191 surgeries
7 Auburn Hospital 240 days not published 10 surgeries
8 South East Regional Hospital 258 days 0.0% 164 surgeries
9 Wyong Hospital 270 days 15.9% 182 surgeries
10 Ryde Hospital 274 days 6.0% 83 surgeries
11 Canterbury Hospital 278 days 0.0% 151 surgeries
12 Lismore Base Hospital 300 days 19.6% 179 surgeries
13 Sutherland Hospital 302 days 13.0% 269 surgeries
14 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 316 days 11.1% 144 surgeries
15 Northern Beaches Hospital 317 days 0.7% 136 surgeries
15 Orange Health Service 317 days 14.6% 192 surgeries
17 Gosford Hospital 323 days 34.4% 90 surgeries
17 Tamworth Hospital 323 days 20.8% 144 surgeries
19 Hawkesbury Hospital 326 days 15.6% 167 surgeries
20 Goulburn Base Hospital 332 days 0.0% 131 surgeries
21 Mount Druitt Hospital 335 days 2.0% 199 surgeries
22 Bathurst Base Hospital 337 days 28.0% 125 surgeries
23 Royal North Shore Hospital 339 days 38.7% 62 surgeries
24 Nepean Hospital 341 days 33.2% 286 surgeries
25 Grafton Base Hospital 342 days 26.6% 158 surgeries
26 Westmead Hospital 345 days 36.1% 72 surgeries
27 Armidale Hospital 347 days 12.6% 95 surgeries
27 Liverpool Hospital 347 days not published 20 surgeries
29 Dubbo Hospital 352 days 35.9% 206 surgeries
30 Wagga Wagga Hospital 354 days 30.1% 342 surgeries
31 Prince of Wales Hospital 358 days 39.2% 166 surgeries
32 Fairfield Hospital 359 days 40.2% 450 surgeries
33 Blacktown Hospital 362 days 40.8% 169 surgeries
34 Wollongong Hospital 365 days 49.1% 397 surgeries
35 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 371 days 53.9% 245 surgeries
36 Shoalhaven Hospital 376 days 54.4% 158 surgeries
37 Coffs Harbour Hospital 380 days 54.8% 210 surgeries
38 Broken Hill Hospital 386 days not published 27 surgeries
39 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 408 days 72.4% 228 surgeries
40 John Hunter Hospital 412 days 72.8% 272 surgeries
40 Manning Hospital 412 days 74.2% 190 surgeries
42 Maitland Hospital 440 days 70.1% 211 surgeries
43 Bowral Hospital 473 days 80.8% 78 surgeries
unranked Campbelltown Hospital not published not published not published
unranked St George Hospital NSW not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Gosford · near Liverpool · near Penrith · near Randwick · near St Leonards · near Westmead.

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The median wait for knee replacement in New South Wales public hospitals was 340 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Knee replacement waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/knee-replacement/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/knee-replacement/nsw/), 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 New South Wales.