Adenoidectomy waiting time at Port Lincoln Health Service

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: 15 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 19 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 3 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
Port Lincoln Health Service	15 days	not published	19 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.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 250 km away334 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 252 km away112 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 257 km away137 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 263 km away451 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 266 km away249 days
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health ServicesSA · about 304 km away145 days
Riverland General HospitalSA · about 438 km away29 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 Adenoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Port Lincoln Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	48	84
2017–18	38	72	95
2018–19	25	55	97
2019–20	28	77	97
2020–21	19	84	207
2021–22	22	97	111
2022–23	22	94	128
2023–24	15	112	148
2024–25	15	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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