ACL reconstruction waiting time at Gawler Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as “Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction” — at this public hospital in the Gawler area of South Australia, 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: 14 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 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 7 days in 2017–18 to 14 days in 2024–25 — up 100% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Gawler Health Service	14 days	not published	40 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	66 days	2.2%	271 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.

Modbury HospitalSA · about 27 km away91 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 38 km away166 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 39 km away162 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 65 km away91 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 205 km away37 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	Gawler Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	62	78
2017–18	7	71	78
2018–19	26	79	82
2019–20	33	78	82
2020–21	12	77	97
2021–22	21	92	89
2022–23	14	101	95
2023–24	12	71	82
2024–25	14	66	81

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

All surgery at Gawler Health Service · ACL reconstruction across Australia · ACL reconstruction in South Australia