ACL reconstruction waiting time at Belmont Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as “Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction” — at this public hospital in the Valentine area of New South Wales, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 314 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 38 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 102 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 86 days in 2016–17 to 314 days in 2024–25 — up 265% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is John Hunter Hospital, about 12 km away, at 255 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
Belmont Hospital	314 days	not published	38 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.

John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 12 km away255 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 31 km away239 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 34 km away127 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 52 km away103 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 89 km away69 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 90 km away64 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 98 km away71 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 100 km away229 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	Belmont Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	86	150	78
2017–18	152	137	78
2018–19	127	129	82
2019–20	123	131	82
2020–21	156	196	97
2021–22	188	180	89
2022–23	86	160	95
2023–24	80	111	82
2024–25	314	134	81

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

All surgery at Belmont Hospital · ACL reconstruction across Australia · ACL reconstruction in New South Wales