Functional endoscopic sinus surgery waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery 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: 254 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 77 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 36.4%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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 39 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 Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	254 days	36.4%	77 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	267 days	28.9%	318 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	214 days	22.7%	2508 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 214 days marks the national median.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 6 km away213 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 15 km away344 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 16 km away116 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 29 km away213 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 38 km away219 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 196 km away510 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	77	not published	111
2017–18	123	93	119
2018–19	86	139	139
2019–20	71	90	127
2020–21	96	190	217
2021–22	253	276	154
2022–23	209	323	292
2023–24	244	260	274
2024–25	254	267	214

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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