ACL reconstruction waiting time at Perth Children's 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 Crawley 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: 84 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 17 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 50 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 98 days in 2018–19 to 84 days in 2024–25 — down 14% — while the national median fell from 82 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, about 5 km away, at 35 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
Perth Children's Hospital	84 days	not published	17 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 0 km away131 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away35 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 9 km away91 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 11 km away76 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away42 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 20 km away224 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away63 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 26 km away70 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Perth Children's 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	Perth Children's Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	55	78
2017–18	not published	68	78
2018–19	98	69	82
2019–20	79	70	82
2020–21	93	77	97
2021–22	91	93	89
2022–23	139	94	95
2023–24	117	74	82
2024–25	84	61	81

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

All surgery at Perth Children's Hospital · ACL reconstruction across Australia · ACL reconstruction in Western Australia