Hip replacement waiting time at Wollongong Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Wollongong area of New South Wales was 335 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: 335 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 266 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 34.2%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 112 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 230 days in 2011–12 to 335 days in 2024–25 — up 46% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sutherland Hospital, about 48 km away, at 181 days. Here, 34.2% 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
Wollongong Hospital	335 days	34.2%	266 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	265 days	20.9%	4162 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.

Bowral HospitalNSW · about 43 km away345 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 48 km away181 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 56 km away182 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 56 km away347 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 60 km away165 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 63 km away348 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 65 km away144 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 66 km away26 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	Wollongong Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	230	193	116
2012–13	97	196	116
2013–14	258	191	106
2014–15	292	206	109
2015–16	327	212	114
2016–17	147	217	110
2017–18	341	212	119
2018–19	342	220	119
2019–20	308	202	120
2020–21	361	271	179
2021–22	332	231	153
2022–23	350	244	175
2023–24	225	225	135
2024–25	335	265	130

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

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