Adenoidectomy waiting time at Lyell McEwin Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Adenoidectomy 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: 137 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 21 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 70 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 31 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 Adenoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Lyell McEwin Hospital	137 days	not published	21 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	130 days	13.4%	329 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	144 days	15.5%	3784 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 144 days marks the national median.

Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 19 km away249 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 19 km away112 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 32 km away334 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 185 km away451 days
Riverland General HospitalSA · about 185 km away29 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 Adenoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Lyell McEwin Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	48	84
2017–18	not published	72	95
2018–19	not published	55	97
2019–20	not published	77	97
2020–21	not published	84	207
2021–22	133	97	111
2022–23	106	94	128
2023–24	161	112	148
2024–25	137	130	144

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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