ACL reconstruction waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as “Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction” — at this public hospital in the Fitzroy area of Victoria, 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: 31 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 56 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 6 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 83 days in 2016–17 to 31 days in 2024–25 — down 63% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.7%.

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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
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]	31 days	0.0%	56 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	68 days	4.7%	944 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 On the ParkVIC · about 1 km away37 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 2 km away109 days
The AlfredVIC · about 4 km away86 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 8 km away143 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 10 km away92 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away54 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 15 km away93 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 17 km away52 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	St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	83	56	78
2017–18	86	56	78
2018–19	32	69	82
2019–20	27	69	82
2020–21	30	126	97
2021–22	76	84	89
2022–23	71	84	95
2023–24	43	74	82
2024–25	31	68	81

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

All surgery at St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] · ACL reconstruction across Australia · ACL reconstruction in Victoria