Keyhole sinus surgery waiting time at Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services
Half of patients at Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services waited 203 days or less for keyhole sinus surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Functional endoscopic sinus surgery". This public hospital is in the Port Augusta 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
- 203 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 289 km away, at 116 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Functional endoscopic sinus surgery" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services | 203 days | not published | 10 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 267 days | 28.9% | 318 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 214 days | 22.7% | 2508 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 214 days marks the national median.
Port Pirie Regional Health Service, SA · about 77 km away: 510 days
Modbury Hospital, SA · about 272 km away: 344 days
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 273 km away: 254 days
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA · about 278 km away: 213 days
Flinders Medical Centre, SA · about 289 km away: 116 days
Noarlunga Hospital, SA · about 300 km away: 213 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, SA · about 303 km away: 219 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
- Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | not published | 111 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 93 | 119 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 139 | 139 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 90 | 127 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 190 | 217 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 276 | 154 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 323 | 292 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 260 | 274 |
| 2024–25 | 203 | 267 | 214 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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