ACL reconstruction waiting time at Concord Repatriation 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 Concord West 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: 179 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 86 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 138 days in 2016–17 to 179 days in 2024–25 — up 30% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Auburn Hospital, about 6 km away, at 68 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
Concord Repatriation Hospital	179 days	not published	47 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.

Ryde HospitalNSW · about 5 km away229 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 6 km away68 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 9 km away71 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 9 km away154 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 10 km away118 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 10 km away120 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 10 km away289 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 13 km away332 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	Concord Repatriation Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	138	150	78
2017–18	86	137	78
2018–19	133	129	82
2019–20	194	131	82
2020–21	169	196	97
2021–22	181	180	89
2022–23	171	160	95
2023–24	127	111	82
2024–25	179	134	81

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

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