Arthroscopy waiting time at Women's and Children's Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Arthroscopy 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: 127 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 28 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 150 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 115 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 Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Women's and Children's Hospital	127 days	not published	28 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	62 days	3.7%	1061 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	7.1%	8779 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 2 km away64 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 7 km away126 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 12 km away83 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 13 km away19 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away95 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 27 km away78 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 31 km away38 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 38 km away15 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 Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Women's and Children's Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	34	56	68
2017–18	54	54	72
2018–19	44	56	75
2019–20	not reported for this period	65	76
2020–21	not published	41	89
2021–22	not reported for this period	57	85
2022–23	49	45	86
2023–24	92	50	78
2024–25	127	62	78

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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