Laminectomy waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Laminectomy 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: 109 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 37 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 17 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 Laminectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	109 days	not published	37 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	87 days	14.0%	609 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	90 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	53 days	3.7%	459 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	66 days	7.4%	1772 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 66 days marks the national median.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away92 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 648 km away70 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 654 km away70 days
The AlfredVIC · about 658 km away36 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 659 km away61 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 660 km away40 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 676 km away55 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 799 km away354 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 Laminectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	43	not published	57
2017–18	87	not published	68
2018–19	27	not published	73
2019–20	73	not published	69
2020–21	48	68	70
2021–22	64	not published	70
2022–23	49	76	92
2023–24	80	not published	68
2024–25	109	not published	66

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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