Surgery Waits

Hip replacement waiting time at Dandenong Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Dandenong area of Victoria was 122 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
122 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
31 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 55 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 195 days in 2011–12 to 122 days in 2024–25 — down 37% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood], about 19 km away, at 112 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Total hip replacement" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Dandenong Hospital122 daysnot published31 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)89 days6.6%3160 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)130 days13.0%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for total hip replacement by financial year at Dandenong Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays0751502253002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Dandenong Hospital 122VIC 89Australia 130
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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 periodDandenong Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2011–1219599116
2012–13271105116
2013–14130111106
2014–1585105109
2015–16109115114
2016–179483110
2017–1811489119
2018–1912585119
2019–2016592120
2020–21261119179
2021–22265122153
2022–23209138175
2023–24129107135
2024–2512289130

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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