ACL reconstruction waiting time at Royal Adelaide 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 Adelaide area of South 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: 162 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 18 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 81 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 57 days in 2016–17 to 162 days in 2024–25 — up 184% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Modbury Hospital, about 13 km away, at 91 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
Royal Adelaide Hospital	162 days	not published	18 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	66 days	2.2%	271 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.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away166 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away91 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 26 km away91 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 39 km away14 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 230 km away37 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	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	57	62	78
2017–18	not published	71	78
2018–19	143	79	82
2019–20	107	78	82
2020–21	112	77	97
2021–22	115	92	89
2022–23	162	101	95
2023–24	140	71	82
2024–25	162	66	81

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

All surgery at Royal Adelaide Hospital · ACL reconstruction across Australia · ACL reconstruction in South Australia