Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as “Haemorrhoidectomy” — at this public hospital in the Woodville South area of South Australia, 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: 96 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 57 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.5%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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 76 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 32 days in 2011–12 to 96 days in 2024–25 — up 200% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 16 km away, at 69 days. Here, 3.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.6%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	96 days	3.5%	57 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	82 days	3.8%	235 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 6 km away232 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 16 km away69 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away93 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 29 km away56 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 76 km away24 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	32	36	57
2012–13	50	19	59
2013–14	34	21	59
2014–15	37	30	56
2015–16	43	31	54
2016–17	62	42	49
2017–18	84	49	47
2018–19	67	45	49
2019–20	93	51	57
2020–21	117	85	70
2021–22	121	73	77
2022–23	185	72	90
2023–24	121	61	67
2024–25	96	82	63

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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