Hip replacement waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Adelaide area of South Australia was 107 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: 107 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 96 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 8.3%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 50 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 93 days in 2011–12 to 107 days in 2024–25 — up 15% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 11 km away, at 63 days. Here, 8.3% 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
Royal Adelaide Hospital	107 days	8.3%	96 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	97 days	8.2%	792 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	130 days	13.0%	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.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away204 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away63 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away92 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 21 km away85 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 26 km away91 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 31 km away38 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 67 km away73 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 71 km away273 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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 period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	93	130	116
2012–13	85	108	116
2013–14	60	104	106
2014–15	92	117	109
2015–16	85	144	114
2016–17	178	174	110
2017–18	324	167	119
2018–19	169	137	119
2019–20	124	119	120
2020–21	110	165	179
2021–22	177	168	153
2022–23	130	127	175
2023–24	123	99	135
2024–25	107	97	130

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

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