Total knee replacement waiting time at Broken Hill Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Total knee replacement at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 386 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 27 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 128 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 117 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Broken Hill Hospital	386 days	not published	27 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	340 days	31.3%	7172 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	147 days	14.7%	1322 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	255 days	23.2%	17987 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 255 days marks the national median.

Riverland General HospitalSA · about 271 km away190 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 338 km away36 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 351 km away110 days
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health ServicesSA · about 352 km away88 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 383 km away180 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 405 km away114 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 407 km away98 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 411 km away99 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

Broken Hill Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Total knee replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Broken Hill Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	285	303	184
2012–13	166	297	196
2013–14	144	290	194
2014–15	154	290	191
2015–16	144	290	188
2016–17	91	290	195
2017–18	368	281	198
2018–19	255	281	209
2019–20	263	296	223
2020–21	454	342	308
2021–22	457	337	293
2022–23	187	344	308
2023–24	205	321	265
2024–25	386	340	255

What is not here

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

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