Corneal graft waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Corneal graft 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: 203 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 23 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 13 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 Corneal graft, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	203 days	not published	23 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	50 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	46 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	96 days	5.5%	398 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 96 days marks the national median.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away125 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 654 km away116 days
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear HospitalVIC · about 656 km away67 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 Corneal graft, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	73	not published	70
2017–18	64	not published	79
2018–19	104	not published	78
2019–20	194	not published	77
2020–21	169	not published	73
2021–22	156	not published	83
2022–23	186	not published	83
2023–24	184	not published	103
2024–25	203	not published	96

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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