ACL reconstruction waiting time at West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as “Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction” — at this public hospital in the Warragul 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: 15 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 20 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 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 57 days in 2016–17 to 15 days in 2024–25 — down 74% — 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.

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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
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]	15 days	not published	20 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.

Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 48 km away62 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 66 km away19 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 69 km away56 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 72 km away49 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 73 km away169 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 81 km away93 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 81 km away54 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 83 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	West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	57	56	78
2017–18	61	56	78
2018–19	not published	69	82
2019–20	not published	69	82
2020–21	30	126	97
2021–22	46	84	89
2022–23	56	84	95
2023–24	70	74	82
2024–25	15	68	81

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

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