Surgery Waits

ACL reconstruction waiting time at Auburn Hospital

The median wait for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" — at this public hospital in the Auburn area of New South Wales was 68 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
68 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 36 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 269 days in 2018–19 to 68 days in 2024–25 — down 75% — while the national median fell from 82 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
Auburn Hospital68 daysnot published14 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)134 days9.8%1429 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)81 days5.7%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction by financial year at Auburn Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Auburn Hospital 68NSW 134Australia 81
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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 periodAuburn Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published15078
2017–18not published13778
2018–1926912982
2019–2019113182
2020–2129019697
2021–22not published18089
2022–2331416095
2023–24not published11182
2024–256813481

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

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