Surgery Waits

ACL reconstruction waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for ACL reconstruction in Western Australia public hospitals was 61 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.

23 public hospitals in Western Australia reported ACL reconstruction in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

9 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 Western Australia 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 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 35 days 1.7% 60 surgeries
2 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 42 days 0.0% 143 surgeries
3 Rockingham General Hospital 48 days 0.0% 55 surgeries
4 Kalgoorlie Health Campus 50 days not published 11 surgeries
5 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 63 days not published 33 surgeries
6 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 70 days not published 28 surgeries
7 Bentley Health Service 76 days 1.7% 59 surgeries
8 Busselton Health Campus 83 days not published 18 surgeries
9 Perth Children's Hospital 84 days not published 17 surgeries
10 Osborne Park Hospital 91 days not published 40 surgeries
11 Bunbury Hospital 97 days not published 20 surgeries
12 Geraldton Hospital 106 days not published 25 surgeries
13 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 131 days not published 25 surgeries
14 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 224 days not published 18 surgeries
unranked Albany Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Broome Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Derby Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Esperance Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Fiona Stanley Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Hedland Health Campus not published not published not published
unranked Karratha Health Campus not published not published not published
unranked Kununurra Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Peel Health Campus not published not published not published

Ranked by area in Western Australia: near Nedlands · near the Perth CBD.

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The median wait for ACL reconstruction in Western Australia public hospitals was 61 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "ACL reconstruction waiting times in Western Australia", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/acl-reconstruction/wa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/acl-reconstruction/wa/), 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.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Western Australia.