Surgery Waits

ACL reconstruction waiting time at Busselton Health Campus

The median wait for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" — at this public hospital in the West Busselton area of Western Australia was 83 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
83 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 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 24 days in 2016–17 to 83 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 Rockingham General Hospital, about 157 km away, at 48 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
Busselton Health Campus83 daysnot published18 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)61 days1.2%578 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)81 days5.7%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction by financial year at Busselton Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Busselton Health Campus 83WA 61Australia 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 periodBusselton Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17245578
2017–18546878
2018–19676982
2019–20497082
2020–21697797
2021–221009389
2022–23899495
2023–24887482
2024–25836181

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

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