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Knee replacement waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for knee replacement in Victoria public hospitals was 133 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.

28 public hospitals in Victoria 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.

1 hospital has 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 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] 49 days 4.2% 288 surgeries
2 Frankston Public Surgical Centre 65 days 0.5% 221 surgeries
3 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 71 days 8.0% 88 surgeries
4 Bass Coast Health 81 days 0.0% 118 surgeries
5 South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] 85 days 0.0% 91 surgeries
6 The Bendigo Hospital 86 days 0.4% 245 surgeries
7 University Hospital Geelong 113 days 0.0% 298 surgeries
8 Box Hill Hospital 124 days 14.9% 221 surgeries
9 Williamstown Hospital 131 days 10.7% 150 surgeries
10 Frankston Hospital 132 days 15.8% 190 surgeries
11 Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] 152 days not published 49 surgeries
12 Northeast Health Wangaratta 154 days 7.2% 250 surgeries
13 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 165 days 30.6% 229 surgeries
14 Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] 172 days 14.1% 269 surgeries
15 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 181 days 11.8% 85 surgeries
16 West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] 195 days 19.4% 124 surgeries
17 Broadmeadows Health Service 198 days not published 11 surgeries
18 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 205 days 16.7% 90 surgeries
19 Dandenong Hospital 213 days not published 47 surgeries
20 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 225 days 15.7% 134 surgeries
21 Western Hospital [Footscray] 278 days 37.0% 54 surgeries
22 Sandringham Hospital 291 days 10.7% 84 surgeries
23 The Alfred 302 days 11.6% 86 surgeries
24 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 313 days 43.5% 191 surgeries
25 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 344 days 46.2% 52 surgeries
26 Werribee Mercy Hospital 370 days 53.8% 65 surgeries
27 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 667 days 68.0% 103 surgeries
unranked Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh] not published not published 6 surgeries

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

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The median wait for knee replacement in Victoria public hospitals was 133 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/knee-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.