ACL reconstruction waiting time at Dubbo 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 Dubbo 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: 101 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 40 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 68 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 185 days in 2016–17 to 101 days in 2024–25 — down 45% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Tamworth Hospital, about 254 km away, at 65 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
Dubbo Hospital	101 days	not published	40 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.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 128 km away264 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 157 km away267 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 199 km away122 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 254 km away65 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 256 km away311 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 258 km away311 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 267 km away317 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 279 km away196 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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	Dubbo Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	185	150	78
2017–18	213	137	78
2018–19	318	129	82
2019–20	195	131	82
2020–21	215	196	97
2021–22	204	180	89
2022–23	82	160	95
2023–24	285	111	82
2024–25	101	134	81

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

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