Ureteric stent - insertion of waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Ureteric stent - insertion 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: 45 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 159 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.6%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 39 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 34 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 Ureteric stent - insertion of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	45 days	0.6%	159 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	42 days	2.7%	226 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	21 days	0.0%	207 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	24 days	0.6%	2982 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 24 days marks the national median.

Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away30 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 21 km away29 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 555 km away19 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 638 km away26 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 654 km away30 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 654 km away15 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 686 km away13 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 686 km away15 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 Ureteric stent - insertion of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	30	not published	17
2017–18	35	34	21
2018–19	33	32	22
2019–20	33	33	21
2020–21	36	39	22
2021–22	33	37	21
2022–23	39	40	24
2023–24	56	57	26
2024–25	45	42	24

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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