ACL reconstruction waiting time at Nepean 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 Cambridge Park 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: 311 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 57 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 26.3%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 100 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 293 days in 2016–17 to 311 days in 2024–25 — up 6% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fairfield Hospital, about 21 km away, at 196 days. Here, 26.3% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.7%.

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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
Nepean Hospital	311 days	26.3%	57 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.

Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 11 km away317 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 19 km away311 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 21 km away196 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 26 km away289 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 26 km away120 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 32 km away68 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 34 km away332 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 35 km away229 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	Nepean Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	293	150	78
2017–18	310	137	78
2018–19	312	129	82
2019–20	200	131	82
2020–21	295	196	97
2021–22	347	180	89
2022–23	406	160	95
2023–24	178	111	82
2024–25	311	134	81

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

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