Knee replacement waiting time at Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Murray Bridge area of South Australia was 98 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

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

Median wait: 98 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 59 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.7%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 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 319 days in 2011–12 to 98 days in 2024–25 — down 69% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, about 38 km away, at 71 days. Here, 1.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 23.2%.

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
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital	98 days	1.7%	59 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	147 days	14.7%	1322 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.

Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 38 km away71 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 63 km away99 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 66 km away130 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 67 km away183 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 70 km away114 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 71 km away330 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 73 km away290 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 78 km away34 days

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

How the wait has changed

Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
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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	Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	319	173	184
2012–13	331	153	196
2013–14	316	161	194
2014–15	256	212	191
2015–16	222	222	188
2016–17	215	254	195
2017–18	234	273	198
2018–19	211	244	209
2019–20	161	189	223
2020–21	311	318	308
2021–22	302	307	293
2022–23	289	230	308
2023–24	178	167	265
2024–25	98	147	255

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

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