ACL reconstruction waiting time at Orange 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 Spring Creek 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: 264 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 14 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 96 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2016–17 (264 days) — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lithgow Hospital, about 98 km away, at 122 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
Orange Health Service	264 days	not published	14 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 46 km away267 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 98 km away122 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 128 km away101 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 158 km away311 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 163 km away311 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 168 km away317 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 169 km away226 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 178 km away196 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	Orange Health Service (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	264	150	78
2017–18	253	137	78
2018–19	60	129	82
2019–20	116	131	82
2020–21	261	196	97
2021–22	267	180	89
2022–23	300	160	95
2023–24	258	111	82
2024–25	264	134	81

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

All surgery at Orange Health Service · ACL reconstruction across Australia · ACL reconstruction in New South Wales