Adenoidectomy waiting time at Gawler Health Service

The median wait for adenoidectomy at this public hospital in the Gawler area of South Australia was 249 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: 249 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 70 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 46 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 63 days in 2020–21 to 249 days in 2024–25 — up 295% — while the national median fell from 207 days to 144 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lyell McEwin Hospital, about 19 km away, at 137 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Adenoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Gawler Health Service	249 days	not published	10 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	130 days	13.4%	329 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	144 days	15.5%	3784 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 144 days marks the national median.

Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away137 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 38 km away112 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 51 km away334 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 172 km away451 days
Riverland General HospitalSA · about 173 km away29 days
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health ServicesSA · about 249 km away145 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 Adenoidectomy, 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	48	84
2017–18	not published	72	95
2018–19	not published	55	97
2019–20	not published	77	97
2020–21	63	84	207
2021–22	not published	97	111
2022–23	not published	94	128
2023–24	not published	112	148
2024–25	249	130	144

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

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