Total knee replacement waiting time at Northern Beaches 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: 317 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 136 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.7%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 128 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 80 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
Northern Beaches Hospital	317 days	0.7%	136 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	340 days	31.3%	7172 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.

Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 9 km away339 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 12 km away316 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 14 km away274 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 14 km away76 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 16 km away91 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 16 km away24 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away181 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 19 km away358 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	Northern Beaches Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	303	184
2012–13	not reported for this period	297	196
2013–14	not reported for this period	290	194
2014–15	not reported for this period	290	191
2015–16	not reported for this period	290	188
2016–17	not reported for this period	290	195
2017–18	not reported for this period	281	198
2018–19	253	281	209
2019–20	234	296	223
2020–21	263	342	308
2021–22	302	337	293
2022–23	312	344	308
2023–24	289	321	265
2024–25	317	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.

All surgery at Northern Beaches Hospital · Total knee replacement across Australia · Total knee replacement in New South Wales