Surgery Waits

ACL reconstruction waiting time at Alice Springs Hospital

The median wait for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" — at this public hospital in the Alice Springs area of Northern Territory was 67 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
67 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
18 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 108 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 35 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 41 days in 2016–17 to 67 days in 2024–25 — up 63% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Alice Springs Hospital67 daysnot published18 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published44 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)81 days5.7%4122 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction by financial year at Alice Springs Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Alice Springs Hospital 67Australia 81
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlice Springs Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–1741not published78
2017–1885not published78
2018–19not publishednot published82
2019–20not publishednot published82
2020–21115not published97
2021–2220not published89
2022–2342not published95
2023–2441not published82
2024–2567not published81

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

All surgery at Alice Springs Hospital · ACL reconstruction across Australia · ACL reconstruction in Northern Territory