ACL reconstruction waiting time at Geraldton 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 Beachlands area of Western 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: 106 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 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 70 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 47 days in 2016–17 to 106 days in 2024–25 — up 126% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 347 km away, at 63 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
Geraldton Hospital	106 days	not published	25 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	61 days	1.2%	578 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.

Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 347 km away63 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 364 km away91 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 371 km away224 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 373 km away131 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 373 km away35 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 373 km away84 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away76 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away42 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

Geraldton Hospital
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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	Geraldton Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	47	55	78
2017–18	153	68	78
2018–19	112	69	82
2019–20	not published	70	82
2020–21	170	77	97
2021–22	112	93	89
2022–23	190	94	95
2023–24	152	74	82
2024–25	106	61	81

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

All surgery at Geraldton Hospital · ACL reconstruction across Australia · ACL reconstruction in Western Australia