Pterygium (eye growth) removal waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre
Half of patients at Flinders Medical Centre waited 82 days or less for pterygium (eye growth) removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Pterygium - excision of". This public hospital is in the Bedford Park area of South Australia.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 82 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 20 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 65 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.
The median wait here has fallen from 135 days in 2016–17 to 82 days in 2024–25 — down 39% — while the national median rose from 128 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Modbury Hospital, about 24 km away, at 63 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flinders Medical Centre | 82 days | not published | 20 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 117 days | 14.5% | 173 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 197 days | 15.7% | 2442 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 days marks the national median.
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA · about 11 km away: 155 days
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 16 km away: 387 days
Modbury Hospital, SA · about 24 km away: 63 days
Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service, SA · about 368 km away: 240 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Flinders Medical Centre
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Flinders Medical Centre (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 135 | not published | 128 |
| 2017–18 | 105 | 115 | 152 |
| 2018–19 | 148 | 177 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | 261 | 190 | 155 |
| 2020–21 | 326 | 309 | 230 |
| 2021–22 | 317 | 270 | 238 |
| 2022–23 | 132 | 203 | 241 |
| 2023–24 | 79 | 165 | 191 |
| 2024–25 | 82 | 117 | 197 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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