ACL reconstruction waiting time at Shellharbour 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 Shellharbour City Centre 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: 390 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 108 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 205 days in 2016–17 to 390 days in 2024–25 — up 90% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wollongong Hospital, about 15 km away, at 168 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
Shellharbour Hospital	390 days	not published	13 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.

Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 15 km away168 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 41 km away92 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 54 km away314 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 63 km away91 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 72 km away332 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 75 km away154 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 78 km away196 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 80 km away68 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	Shellharbour Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	205	150	78
2017–18	266	137	78
2018–19	277	129	82
2019–20	313	131	82
2020–21	329	196	97
2021–22	325	180	89
2022–23	423	160	95
2023–24	382	111	82
2024–25	390	134	81

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

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