Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction waiting time at John Hunter Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction at this public hospital, 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: 255 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 16 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 95 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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
John Hunter Hospital	255 days	not published	16 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.

Belmont HospitalNSW · about 12 km away314 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 26 km away127 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 43 km away239 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 64 km away103 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 101 km away69 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 102 km away64 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 110 km away71 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 111 km away311 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	John Hunter Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	84	150	78
2017–18	118	137	78
2018–19	140	129	82
2019–20	108	131	82
2020–21	246	196	97
2021–22	105	180	89
2022–23	238	160	95
2023–24	285	111	82
2024–25	255	134	81

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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