Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at Noarlunga Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Shoulder joint replacement 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: 374 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 89 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 82 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 Shoulder joint replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Noarlunga Hospital	374 days	not published	13 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	140 days	15.3%	118 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	174 days	20.4%	2417 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 174 days marks the national median.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 26 km away158 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 29 km away61 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 38 km away156 days
Mount Gambier and Districts Health ServiceSA · about 360 km away54 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 Shoulder joint replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Noarlunga Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	not published	147
2017–18	not reported for this period	not published	152
2018–19	not reported for this period	not published	163
2019–20	not reported for this period	not published	154
2020–21	not reported for this period	not published	246
2021–22	not published	not published	218
2022–23	not published	not published	254
2023–24	210	127	192
2024–25	374	140	174

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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