Total knee replacement waiting time at Royal Hobart 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: 124 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 222 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 4.1%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 25 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
Royal Hobart Hospital	124 days	4.1%	222 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	161 days	6.8%	559 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.

Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 160 km away188 days
North West Regional HospitalTAS · about 236 km away214 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 497 km away81 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 523 km away165 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 537 km away195 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 557 km away65 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 558 km away132 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 574 km away213 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 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

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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	Royal Hobart Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	679	476	184
2012–13	812	615	196
2013–14	763	540	194
2014–15	325	374	191
2015–16	163	299	188
2016–17	174	320	195
2017–18	172	233	198
2018–19	413	258	209
2019–20	397	394	223
2020–21	441	519	308
2021–22	259	425	293
2022–23	136	381	308
2023–24	118	209	265
2024–25	124	161	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 Royal Hobart Hospital · Total knee replacement across Australia · Total knee replacement in Tasmania