ACL reconstruction waiting time at Westmead Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as “Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction” — at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales, 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: 289 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 26 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 98 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 98 days in 2016–17 to 289 days in 2024–25 — up 195% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Children's Hospital at Westmead, about 0 km away, at 120 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
Westmead Hospital	289 days	not published	26 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.

The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 0 km away120 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 7 km away68 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 9 km away229 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 10 km away196 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away179 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

Westmead Hospital
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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	Westmead Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	98	150	78
2017–18	84	137	78
2018–19	198	129	82
2019–20	308	131	82
2020–21	374	196	97
2021–22	157	180	89
2022–23	298	160	95
2023–24	166	111	82
2024–25	289	134	81

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

All surgery at Westmead Hospital · ACL reconstruction across Australia · ACL reconstruction in New South Wales