Hiatus hernia repair waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre
Half of patients at Flinders Medical Centre waited 80 days or less for hiatus hernia repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia". 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
- 80 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 21 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 41 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 48 days in 2017–18 to 80 days in 2024–25 — up 67% — while the national median rose from 79 days to 88 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 654 km away, at 40 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flinders Medical Centre | 80 days | not published | 21 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 85 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 57 days | 2.0% | 248 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 88 days | 9.2% | 1170 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 88 days marks the national median.
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA · about 11 km away: 200 days
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 16 km away: 124 days
The Alfred, VIC · about 654 km away: 40 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], VIC · about 654 km away: 54 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], VIC · about 656 km away: 62 days
Sandringham Hospital, VIC · about 662 km away: 23 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], VIC · about 672 km away: 109 days
Frankston Hospital, VIC · about 681 km away: 71 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 — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
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 | not published | not published | 66 |
| 2017–18 | 48 | not published | 79 |
| 2018–19 | 44 | not published | 78 |
| 2019–20 | 72 | not published | 81 |
| 2020–21 | 79 | not published | 91 |
| 2021–22 | 23 | not published | 98 |
| 2022–23 | 141 | not published | 114 |
| 2023–24 | 89 | not published | 89 |
| 2024–25 | 80 | not published | 88 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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