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ACL reconstruction waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for ACL reconstruction in New South Wales public hospitals was 134 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 81 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

53 public hospitals in New South Wales reported ACL reconstruction in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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11 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

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

Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Queanbeyan Hospital 28 days not published 16 surgeries
2 Lismore Base Hospital 39 days not published 31 surgeries
3 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 64 days 1.7% 60 surgeries
4 Tamworth Hospital 65 days not published 28 surgeries
5 Auburn Hospital 68 days not published 14 surgeries
6 Northern Beaches Hospital 69 days 0.0% 57 surgeries
7 Royal North Shore Hospital 71 days not published 41 surgeries
8 Prince of Wales Hospital 73 days 4.3% 92 surgeries
9 Casino and District Memorial Hospital 79 days not published 30 surgeries
10 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 88 days not published 11 surgeries
11 Sutherland Hospital 91 days 1.5% 67 surgeries
12 Shoalhaven Hospital 92 days not published 26 surgeries
13 Tweed Valley Hospital 94 days 0.0% 65 surgeries
14 Manning Hospital 96 days not published 13 surgeries
15 Dubbo Hospital 101 days not published 40 surgeries
16 Gosford Hospital 103 days not published 20 surgeries
17 Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics 118 days not published 35 surgeries
18 The Children's Hospital at Westmead 120 days not published 14 surgeries
19 Lithgow Hospital 122 days not published 13 surgeries
20 Maitland Hospital 127 days not published 43 surgeries
21 Canterbury Hospital 154 days 0.0% 52 surgeries
22 Wollongong Hospital 168 days not published 29 surgeries
23 Wagga Wagga Hospital 174 days not published 35 surgeries
24 Concord Repatriation Hospital 179 days not published 47 surgeries
25 Fairfield Hospital 196 days 9.1% 55 surgeries
26 Goulburn Base Hospital 226 days not published 16 surgeries
27 Ryde Hospital 229 days not published 19 surgeries
28 Wyong Hospital 239 days not published 10 surgeries
29 John Hunter Hospital 255 days not published 16 surgeries
30 Orange Health Service 264 days not published 14 surgeries
31 Bathurst Base Hospital 267 days not published 23 surgeries
32 Westmead Hospital 289 days not published 26 surgeries
33 Grafton Base Hospital 309 days not published 13 surgeries
34 Hawkesbury Hospital 311 days not published 22 surgeries
34 Nepean Hospital 311 days 26.3% 57 surgeries
36 Belmont Hospital 314 days not published 38 surgeries
36 Campbelltown Hospital 314 days not published 30 surgeries
38 Mount Druitt Hospital 317 days 2.7% 74 surgeries
39 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 324 days not published 18 surgeries
40 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 332 days not published 24 surgeries
41 Coffs Harbour Hospital 334 days not published 29 surgeries
42 Shellharbour Hospital 390 days not published 13 surgeries
unranked Armidale Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Blacktown Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Bowral Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Cessnock Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Cooma Hospital and Health Service not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Griffith Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Liverpool Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Royal Prince Alfred Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Singleton Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked South East Regional Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Sydney Children's Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Gosford · near Liverpool · near Penrith · near Randwick · near St Leonards · near Westmead · near Wollongong.

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The median wait for ACL reconstruction in New South Wales public hospitals was 134 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "ACL reconstruction waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/acl-reconstruction/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/acl-reconstruction/nsw/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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