Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) 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: 30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 229 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.1%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 25 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 13 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 Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	30 days	6.1%	229 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	56 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	3.5%	400 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	20 days	1.5%	1241 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	26 days	2.6%	3742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away22 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 629 km away19 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 653 km away29 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 654 km away87 days
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear HospitalVIC · about 656 km away14 days
Cranbourne Integrated Care CentreVIC · about 695 km away30 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 762 km away49 days
The Canberra HospitalACT · about 957 km away41 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 Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	11	14	19
2017–18	27	27	21
2018–19	16	19	22
2019–20	23	27	21
2020–21	22	23	19
2021–22	23	17	18
2022–23	29	29	24
2023–24	23	22	22
2024–25	30	28	26

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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