Bone realignment surgery waiting times in Australian public hospitals
The national median wait for bone realignment surgery in Australian public hospitals was 135 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Hospital medians ranged from 20 days at The Alfred to 402 days at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]. The source publishes this surgery as "Osteotomy".
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
Across Australia, the median wait for bone realignment surgery in public hospitals was 135 days in 2024–25, from 1866 surgeries. 19.2% of people waited more than 365 days. 49 public hospitals published a median wait for it.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Osteotomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
State by state
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 135 days marks the national median.
Queensland: 99 days
Western Australia: 112 days
New South Wales: 180 days
Victoria: 206 days
Northern Territory: not published
South Australia: not published
| Rank | State or territory | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queensland | 99 days | 12.7% | 550 surgeries |
| 2 | Western Australia | 112 days | 12.1% | 289 surgeries |
| 3 | New South Wales | 180 days | 16.4% | 451 surgeries |
| 4 | Victoria | 206 days | 34.3% | 510 surgeries |
| unranked | Northern Territory | not published | not published | 8 surgeries |
| unranked | South Australia | not published | not published | 58 surgeries |
Ranked by area: near the Adelaide CBD · near Clayton · near Herston · near Murdoch · near the Perth CBD · near Prahran · and 2 more areas on the state pages.
How the wait has changed
- Australia
- QLD
- WA
- NSW
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Australia (days) | QLD (days) | WA (days) | NSW (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 76 | 69 | 69 | 156 |
| 2017–18 | 86 | 77 | 74 | 153 |
| 2018–19 | 90 | 85 | 91 | 147 |
| 2019–20 | 103 | 86 | 85 | 157 |
| 2020–21 | 136 | 91 | 101 | 233 |
| 2021–22 | 122 | 90 | 114 | 166 |
| 2022–23 | 157 | 123 | 106 | 146 |
| 2023–24 | 152 | 97 | 112 | 182 |
| 2024–25 | 135 | 99 | 112 | 180 |
Common questions
How long is the wait for bone realignment surgery in a public hospital?
The national median was 135 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Half of people waited less than that, half waited longer. State medians ranged from 99 days in Queensland to 206 days in Victoria.
Which public hospital has the shortest wait for bone realignment surgery?
Of the 49 public hospitals that published a median for 2024–25, The Alfred reported the shortest median, 20 days, and Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] the longest, 402 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). A shorter median is not a recommendation. How to read these figures.
How many people waited more than a year?
19.2% of people who had bone realignment surgery in an Australian public hospital in 2024–25 waited more than 365 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
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The national median wait for bone realignment surgery in Australian public hospitals was 135 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
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Surgery Waits, "Bone realignment surgery waiting list by state, 2024–25", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/osteotomy/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/osteotomy/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.
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<img src="https://surgerywaits.au/charts/osteotomy.svg" width="720" height="284" alt="Median public hospital waiting time for Bone realignment surgery by state and territory, 2024–25">What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.
The source calls this collection "elective surgery". This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.