Breast reduction waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Breast reduction 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: 588 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 22 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 24 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 22 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 Breast reduction, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	588 days	not published	22 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	497 days	65.2%	138 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	182 days	27.9%	190 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	309 days	33.2%	744 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 309 days marks the national median.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away659 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away553 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 26 km away442 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 651 km away61 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 653 km away395 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 654 km away321 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 671 km away87 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 683 km away849 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Breast reduction, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	not published	178
2017–18	not published	not published	216
2018–19	not published	not published	250
2019–20	760	not published	326
2020–21	607	386	347
2021–22	446	not published	301
2022–23	793	not published	365
2023–24	518	not published	325
2024–25	588	497	309

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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