ACL reconstruction waiting time at Bunbury Hospital

The median wait for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" — at this public hospital in the College Grove area of Western Australia was 97 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: 97 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 20 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 66 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 97 days in 2024–25 — up 246% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Busselton Health Campus, about 44 km away, at 83 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
Bunbury Hospital	97 days	not published	20 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	61 days	1.2%	578 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	81 days	5.7%	4122 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 81 days marks the national median.

Busselton Health CampusWA · about 44 km away83 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 120 km away48 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 142 km away70 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 146 km away42 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 154 km away76 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 156 km away84 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 156 km away131 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 158 km away35 days

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

How the wait has changed

Bunbury Hospital
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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 period	Bunbury Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	28	55	78
2017–18	76	68	78
2018–19	76	69	82
2019–20	40	70	82
2020–21	73	77	97
2021–22	70	93	89
2022–23	101	94	95
2023–24	64	74	82
2024–25	97	61	81

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

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