Adenoid removal waiting time at Port Lincoln Health Service
Half of patients at Port Lincoln Health Service waited 15 days or less for adenoid removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Adenoidectomy". This public hospital is in the Port Lincoln 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
- 15 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 19 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 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 38 days in 2017–18 to 15 days in 2024–25 — down 61% — while the national median rose from 95 days to 144 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Adenoidectomy" 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 Lincoln Health Service | 15 days | not published | 19 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.
Flinders Medical Centre, SA · about 250 km away: 334 days
Women's and Children's Hospital, SA · about 252 km away: 112 days
Lyell McEwin Hospital, SA · about 257 km away: 137 days
Port Pirie Regional Health Service, SA · about 263 km away: 451 days
Gawler Health Service, SA · about 266 km away: 249 days
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services, SA · about 304 km away: 145 days
Riverland General Hospital, SA · about 438 km away: 29 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 Lincoln Health Service
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Port Lincoln Health Service (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 48 | 84 |
| 2017–18 | 38 | 72 | 95 |
| 2018–19 | 25 | 55 | 97 |
| 2019–20 | 28 | 77 | 97 |
| 2020–21 | 19 | 84 | 207 |
| 2021–22 | 22 | 97 | 111 |
| 2022–23 | 22 | 94 | 128 |
| 2023–24 | 15 | 112 | 148 |
| 2024–25 | 15 | 130 | 144 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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