ACL reconstruction waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

The median wait for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" — at this public hospital in the Carlton area of Victoria was 109 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

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

Median wait: 109 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 35 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 71 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 174 days in 2018–19 to 109 days in 2024–25 — down 37% — while the national median fell from 82 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], about 2 km away, at 31 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
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]	109 days	not published	35 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 Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away31 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 2 km away37 days
The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away86 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 9 km away92 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away143 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 14 km away54 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 16 km away93 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 17 km away52 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	Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	56	78
2017–18	not published	56	78
2018–19	174	69	82
2019–20	87	69	82
2020–21	366	126	97
2021–22	210	84	89
2022–23	107	84	95
2023–24	146	74	82
2024–25	109	68	81

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

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