Total hip replacement waiting time at South Coast District 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: 273 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 99 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
South Coast District Hospital	273 days	not published	11 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.

Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 48 km away91 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 58 km away38 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 60 km away63 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 71 km away107 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 76 km away204 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 78 km away73 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 81 km away92 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 91 km away85 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	South Coast District Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	162	130	116
2012–13	173	108	116
2013–14	212	104	106
2014–15	167	117	109
2015–16	264	144	114
2016–17	273	174	110
2017–18	195	167	119
2018–19	200	137	119
2019–20	271	119	120
2020–21	251	165	179
2021–22	not published	168	153
2022–23	not published	127	175
2023–24	25	99	135
2024–25	273	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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