ACL reconstruction waiting time at Queanbeyan Hospital

The median wait for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" — at this public hospital in the Queanbeyan area of New South Wales was 28 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: 28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 16 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 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 38 days in 2017–18 to 28 days in 2024–25 — down 26% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Queanbeyan Hospital	28 days	not published	16 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	134 days	9.8%	1429 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.

Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 80 km away226 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 135 km away92 days
Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 171 km away390 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 172 km away174 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 182 km away168 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 202 km away314 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 218 km away267 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 221 km away122 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 Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Queanbeyan Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	150	78
2017–18	38	137	78
2018–19	35	129	82
2019–20	51	131	82
2020–21	35	196	97
2021–22	18	180	89
2022–23	35	160	95
2023–24	35	111	82
2024–25	28	134	81

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

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