Trabeculectomy waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Trabeculectomy 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: 36 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 48 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 19 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 8 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 Trabeculectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	36 days	not published	48 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	66 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.0%	156 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	32 days	0.1%	716 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 32 days marks the national median.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away52 days
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear HospitalVIC · about 656 km away17 days
The AlfredVIC · about 658 km away23 days
Cranbourne Integrated Care CentreVIC · about 695 km away37 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 Trabeculectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	53	41	21
2017–18	83	80	24
2018–19	31	52	27
2019–20	52	53	24
2020–21	42	48	21
2021–22	76	60	21
2022–23	70	not published	28
2023–24	86	not published	29
2024–25	36	not published	32

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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