Total knee replacement waiting time at Werribee Mercy 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: 370 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 65 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 53.8%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 112 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
Werribee Mercy Hospital	370 days	53.8%	65 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.

Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 17 km away131 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 20 km away278 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 25 km away225 days
The AlfredVIC · about 25 km away302 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 26 km away49 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 29 km away291 days
Broadmeadows Health ServiceVIC · about 29 km away198 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 32 km away172 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	Werribee Mercy Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	123	184
2012–13	not reported for this period	141	196
2013–14	not reported for this period	160	194
2014–15	not reported for this period	147	191
2015–16	not reported for this period	148	188
2016–17	not reported for this period	97	195
2017–18	278	114	198
2018–19	not published	111	209
2019–20	307	125	223
2020–21	380	180	308
2021–22	357	163	293
2022–23	523	221	308
2023–24	420	181	265
2024–25	370	133	255

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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