Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction waiting time at Tamworth Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction at this public hospital, 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: 65 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 28 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 32 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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
Tamworth Hospital	65 days	not published	28 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.

Manning HospitalNSW · about 172 km away96 days
Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 190 km away324 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 193 km away127 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 218 km away255 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 224 km away334 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 227 km away314 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 248 km away309 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 249 km away239 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	Tamworth Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	258	150	78
2017–18	204	137	78
2018–19	183	129	82
2019–20	not published	131	82
2020–21	244	196	97
2021–22	38	180	89
2022–23	320	160	95
2023–24	60	111	82
2024–25	65	134	81

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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