Surgery Waits

Hip replacement waiting time at Naracoorte Health Service

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Naracoorte area of South Australia was 224 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
224 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
32 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 89 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 219 days in 2012–13 to 224 days in 2024–25 — up 2% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service, about 93 km away, at 105 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
Naracoorte Health Service224 daysnot published32 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)97 days8.2%792 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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for total hip replacement by financial year at Naracoorte Health Service, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0751502253002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Naracoorte Health Service 224SA 97Australia 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 periodNaracoorte Health Service (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not published130116
2012–13219108116
2013–14259104106
2014–15243117109
2015–16235144114
2016–17263174110
2017–18238167119
2018–19157137119
2019–20194119120
2020–21296165179
2021–22142168153
2022–23215127175
2023–2411899135
2024–2522497130

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

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