ACL reconstruction waiting time at Modbury Hospital

The median wait for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" — at this public hospital in the Modbury area of South Australia was 91 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: 91 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 47 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 55 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 56 days in 2017–18 to 91 days in 2024–25 — up 63% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gawler Health Service, about 27 km away, at 14 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" 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 Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Modbury Hospital	91 days	not published	47 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	66 days	2.2%	271 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 13 km away162 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 15 km away166 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 27 km away14 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 38 km away91 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 225 km away37 days

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

How the wait has changed

Modbury Hospital
SA
Australia

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	Modbury Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	62	78
2017–18	56	71	78
2018–19	90	79	82
2019–20	125	78	82
2020–21	not published	77	97
2021–22	130	92	89
2022–23	128	101	95
2023–24	83	71	82
2024–25	91	66	81

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

All surgery at Modbury Hospital · ACL reconstruction across Australia · ACL reconstruction in South Australia