Surgery Waits

ACL reconstruction waiting time at Sutherland Hospital

The median wait for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" — at this public hospital in the Caringbah area of New South Wales was 91 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
91 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
67 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
1.5%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 55 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 151 days in 2016–17 to 91 days in 2024–25 — down 40% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Prince of Wales Hospital, about 17 km away, at 73 days. Here, 1.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.7%.

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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
Sutherland Hospital91 days1.5%67 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 Sutherland Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Sutherland Hospital 91NSW 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 periodSutherland Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1715115078
2017–1819613778
2018–1917612982
2019–2014313182
2020–2123119697
2021–228918089
2022–236516095
2023–249611182
2024–259113481

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

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