Surgery Waits

Knee replacement waiting time at Orange Health Service

The median wait for knee replacement — published by the source as "Total knee replacement" — at this public hospital in the Spring Creek area of New South Wales was 317 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
317 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
192 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
14.6%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 80 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 355 days in 2011–12 to 317 days in 2024–25 — down 11% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 14.6% 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
Orange Health Service317 days14.6%192 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)340 days31.3%7172 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 Orange Health Service, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Orange Health Service 317NSW 340Australia 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 periodOrange Health Service (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12355303184
2012–13343297196
2013–14336290194
2014–15331290191
2015–16329290188
2016–17330290195
2017–18300281198
2018–19267281209
2019–20288296223
2020–21354342308
2021–22353337293
2022–23323344308
2023–24218321265
2024–25317340255

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

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