Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Port Lincoln Health Service

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Port Lincoln area of South Australia was 21 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
21 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 150 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 30 days in 2016–17 to 21 days in 2024–25 — down 30% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 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 Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Port Lincoln Health Service21 daysnot published19 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)62 days3.7%1061 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days7.1%8779 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for arthroscopy by financial year at Port Lincoln Health Service, compared with South Australia and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Port Lincoln Health Service 21SA 62Australia 78
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodPort Lincoln Health Service (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17305668
2017–18455472
2018–19425675
2019–20366576
2020–21284189
2021–22355785
2022–23244586
2023–24355078
2024–25216278

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

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