Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Pterygium - excision of 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: 82 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 20 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 13 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 Pterygium - excision of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Flinders Medical Centre	82 days	not published	20 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	117 days	14.5%	173 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	197 days	15.7%	2442 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 days marks the national median.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 11 km away155 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away387 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 24 km away63 days
Mount Gambier and Districts Health ServiceSA · about 368 km away240 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Pterygium - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	135	not published	128
2017–18	105	115	152
2018–19	148	177	125
2019–20	261	190	155
2020–21	326	309	230
2021–22	317	270	238
2022–23	132	203	241
2023–24	79	165	191
2024–25	82	117	197

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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