Total hip replacement waiting time at Noarlunga Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Total hip 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: 91 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 160 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.9%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 32 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 hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Noarlunga Hospital	91 days	6.9%	160 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	97 days	8.2%	792 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	130 days	13.0%	12180 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 130 days marks the national median.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 15 km away63 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 26 km away107 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 29 km away204 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 34 km away38 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 38 km away92 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 46 km away85 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 48 km away273 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 71 km away73 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 hip replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Noarlunga Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	130	116
2012–13	not reported for this period	108	116
2013–14	not reported for this period	104	106
2014–15	not reported for this period	117	109
2015–16	not reported for this period	144	114
2016–17	not reported for this period	174	110
2017–18	not reported for this period	167	119
2018–19	not reported for this period	137	119
2019–20	not reported for this period	119	120
2020–21	not published	165	179
2021–22	335	168	153
2022–23	163	127	175
2023–24	105	99	135
2024–25	91	97	130

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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