Total knee replacement waiting time at Dandenong 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: 213 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 47 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 56 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
Dandenong Hospital	213 days	not published	47 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	133 days	14.9%	3839 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.

Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 15 km away172 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 18 km away291 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 19 km away152 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 20 km away124 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 21 km away132 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 21 km away65 days
The AlfredVIC · about 25 km away302 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 28 km away344 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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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	Dandenong Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	227	123	184
2012–13	328	141	196
2013–14	192	160	194
2014–15	124	147	191
2015–16	120	148	188
2016–17	112	97	195
2017–18	147	114	198
2018–19	174	111	209
2019–20	182	125	223
2020–21	346	180	308
2021–22	417	163	293
2022–23	290	221	308
2023–24	224	181	265
2024–25	213	133	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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