Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

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: 120 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 75 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
The Children's Hospital at Westmead	120 days	not published	14 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.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 0 km away289 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 8 km away68 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 9 km away229 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away179 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 10 km away196 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away332 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 15 km away317 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 16 km away64 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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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 Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	128	150	78
2017–18	not published	137	78
2018–19	not published	129	82
2019–20	229	131	82
2020–21	131	196	97
2021–22	343	180	89
2022–23	195	160	95
2023–24	90	111	82
2024–25	120	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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