Breast reduction waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Breast reduction at this public hospital, 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: 553 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 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 24 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Breast reduction, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Flinders Medical Centre	553 days	not published	25 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	497 days	65.2%	138 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	182 days	27.9%	190 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	309 days	33.2%	744 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 309 days marks the national median.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 11 km away588 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 15 km away442 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away659 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 647 km away61 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 649 km away395 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 649 km away321 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 667 km away87 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 679 km away849 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Breast reduction, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	not published	178
2017–18	198	not published	216
2018–19	205	not published	250
2019–20	299	not published	326
2020–21	338	386	347
2021–22	308	not published	301
2022–23	317	not published	365
2023–24	517	not published	325
2024–25	553	497	309

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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