Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction waiting time at Lithgow 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: 122 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 76 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
Lithgow Hospital	122 days	not published	13 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.

Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 53 km away267 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 61 km away311 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 65 km away311 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 71 km away317 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 82 km away196 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 87 km away289 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 87 km away120 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 90 km away314 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	Lithgow Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	86	150	78
2017–18	not published	137	78
2018–19	243	129	82
2019–20	not published	131	82
2020–21	337	196	97
2021–22	not published	180	89
2022–23	not published	160	95
2023–24	not published	111	82
2024–25	122	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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