Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy 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: 22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 100 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 28 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 Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	22 days	0.0%	100 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.0%	169 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	15 days	0.0%	416 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	17 days	0.0%	1875 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 17 days marks the national median.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away20 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 552 km away11 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 555 km away17 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 648 km away17 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 651 km away14 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 654 km away12 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 656 km away26 days
The AlfredVIC · about 658 km away13 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 Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	10	not published	13
2017–18	16	not published	13
2018–19	16	16	15
2019–20	20	19	14
2020–21	14	13	13
2021–22	13	14	14
2022–23	12	13	15
2023–24	14	14	16
2024–25	22	20	17

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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