ACL reconstruction waiting time at Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics

Median wait, long waits and volumes for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as “Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction” — at this public hospital in the Camperdown 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: 118 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 35 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 73 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 42 days in 2016–17 to 118 days in 2024–25 — up 181% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], about 4 km away, at 88 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 Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics	118 days	not published	35 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 4 km away88 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 6 km away73 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 7 km away71 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 8 km away154 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away179 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 13 km away229 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 14 km away68 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 16 km away332 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 Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	42	150	78
2017–18	35	137	78
2018–19	48	129	82
2019–20	96	131	82
2020–21	83	196	97
2021–22	28	180	89
2022–23	68	160	95
2023–24	88	111	82
2024–25	118	134	81

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

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