Total hip replacement waiting time at Werribee Mercy 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: 274 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 30 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 100 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
Werribee Mercy Hospital	274 days	not published	30 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	89 days	6.6%	3160 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.

Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 17 km away107 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 20 km away144 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 25 km away193 days
The AlfredVIC · about 25 km away78 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 26 km away41 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 29 km away261 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 32 km away151 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 34 km away187 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	Werribee Mercy Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	99	116
2012–13	not reported for this period	105	116
2013–14	not reported for this period	111	106
2014–15	not reported for this period	105	109
2015–16	not reported for this period	115	114
2016–17	not reported for this period	83	110
2017–18	not published	89	119
2018–19	not published	85	119
2019–20	218	92	120
2020–21	311	119	179
2021–22	312	122	153
2022–23	360	138	175
2023–24	318	107	135
2024–25	274	89	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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