Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression waiting time at Gawler Health Service

The median wait for acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression at this public hospital in the Gawler area of South Australia was 14 days in 2024–25.

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: 14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 43 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 10 days in 2020–21 to 14 days in 2024–25 — up 40% — while the national median fell from 141 days to 92 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Gawler Health Service	14 days	not published	13 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	106 days	9.4%	202 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	92 days	6.3%	1418 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 92 days marks the national median.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 39 km away135 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 51 km away306 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 65 km away134 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 108 km away152 days
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)SA · about 127 km away134 days
Riverland General HospitalSA · about 173 km away162 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 205 km away54 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 Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Gawler Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	not published	85
2017–18	not reported for this period	97	95
2018–19	not published	91	98
2019–20	not published	83	108
2020–21	10	163	141
2021–22	not published	105	131
2022–23	not reported for this period	79	154
2023–24	not published	109	101
2024–25	14	106	92

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

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