ACL reconstruction waiting time at The Alfred

Median wait, long waits and volumes for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as “Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction” — at this public hospital in the South Yarra 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: 86 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 14 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 52 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 56 days in 2017–18 to 86 days in 2024–25 — up 54% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's On the Park, about 4 km away, at 37 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
The Alfred	86 days	not published	14 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 4 km away37 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 4 km away31 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away109 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 8 km away92 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 11 km away93 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 12 km away143 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away54 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 13 km away240 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	The Alfred (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	56	78
2017–18	56	56	78
2018–19	100	69	82
2019–20	273	69	82
2020–21	312	126	97
2021–22	200	84	89
2022–23	not published	84	95
2023–24	352	74	82
2024–25	86	68	81

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

All surgery at The Alfred · ACL reconstruction across Australia · ACL reconstruction in Victoria