Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

Median wait, long waits and volumes for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as “Haemorrhoidectomy” — at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia, 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: 69 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 54 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 106 days in 2011–12 to 69 days in 2024–25 — down 35% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Noarlunga Hospital, about 15 km away, at 56 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Flinders Medical Centre	69 days	not published	13 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	82 days	3.8%	235 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 11 km away232 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 15 km away56 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away96 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 32 km away93 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 60 km away24 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	106	36	57
2012–13	53	19	59
2013–14	45	21	59
2014–15	15	30	56
2015–16	36	31	54
2016–17	61	42	49
2017–18	59	49	47
2018–19	22	45	49
2019–20	not published	51	57
2020–21	59	85	70
2021–22	not published	73	77
2022–23	131	72	90
2023–24	116	61	67
2024–25	69	82	63

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

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