Stone/s urinary tract - removal of waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Stone/s urinary tract - removal of 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: 52 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 84 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.4%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 24 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 Stone/s urinary tract - removal of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	52 days	2.4%	84 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	29 days	0.7%	446 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.8%	1680 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	25 days	1.5%	3653 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 25 days marks the national median.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away56 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away27 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 21 km away28 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 555 km away24 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 648 km away17 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 651 km away24 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 652 km away17 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 656 km away29 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 Stone/s urinary tract - removal of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	29	not published	28
2017–18	49	not published	29
2018–19	35	not published	26
2019–20	32	not published	28
2020–21	42	not published	29
2021–22	42	not published	21
2022–23	46	51	23
2023–24	51	39	24
2024–25	52	29	25

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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