Surgery Waits

Hip replacement waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Waitara area of New South Wales was 313 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
313 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
74 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
9.5%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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 107 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 191 days in 2011–12 to 313 days in 2024–25 — up 64% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Ryde Hospital, about 11 km away, at 225 days. Here, 9.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 13.0%.

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
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital313 days9.5%74 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)265 days20.9%4162 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 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 313NSW 265Australia 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 periodHornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12191193116
2012–13235196116
2013–1495191106
2014–15160206109
2015–16186212114
2016–17125217110
2017–18167212119
2018–19244220119
2019–20204202120
2020–21275271179
2021–22194231153
2022–23190244175
2023–24293225135
2024–25313265130

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

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