Functional endoscopic sinus surgery waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery 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: 213 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 31 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 32 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 Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	213 days	not published	31 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	267 days	28.9%	318 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	214 days	22.7%	2508 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 214 days marks the national median.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away254 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away116 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away344 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 26 km away213 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 31 km away219 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 201 km away510 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 Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, 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	111
2017–18	not published	93	119
2018–19	370	139	139
2019–20	355	90	127
2020–21	368	190	217
2021–22	359	276	154
2022–23	352	323	292
2023–24	not published	260	274
2024–25	213	267	214

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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