Surgery Waits

Knee replacement waiting time at Dandenong Hospital

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Dandenong area of Victoria was 213 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
213 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
47 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 128 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 56 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 227 days in 2011–12 to 213 days in 2024–25 — down 6% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin], about 15 km away, at 172 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Total knee 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 knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Dandenong Hospital213 daysnot published47 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)133 days14.9%3839 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)255 days23.2%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.

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 knee replacement by financial year at Dandenong Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays01252503755002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Dandenong Hospital 213VIC 133Australia 255
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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 periodDandenong Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2011–12227123184
2012–13328141196
2013–14192160194
2014–15124147191
2015–16120148188
2016–1711297195
2017–18147114198
2018–19174111209
2019–20182125223
2020–21346180308
2021–22417163293
2022–23290221308
2023–24224181265
2024–25213133255

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

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