Deviated septum surgery waiting time at Port Lincoln Health Service
Half of patients at Port Lincoln Health Service waited 8 days or less for deviated septum surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Septoplasty". 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
- 8 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 103 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 fallen from 24 days in 2017–18 to 8 days in 2024–25 — down 67% — while the national median rose from 248 days to 320 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Septoplasty" 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 | 8 days | not published | 13 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 300 days | 23.5% | 584 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 320 days | 30.8% | 5687 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 320 days marks the national median.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 246 km away: 217 days
Noarlunga Hospital, SA · about 246 km away: 312 days
Flinders Medical Centre, SA · about 250 km away: 329 days
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA · about 251 km away: 259 days
Lyell McEwin Hospital, SA · about 257 km away: 391 days
Modbury Hospital, SA · about 260 km away: 351 days
Port Pirie Regional Health Service, SA · about 263 km away: 513 days
Gawler Health Service, SA · about 266 km away: 364 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not published | 133 | 160 |
| 2012–13 | not published | 100 | 197 |
| 2013–14 | not published | 138 | 221 |
| 2014–15 | not published | 170 | 214 |
| 2015–16 | not published | 273 | 209 |
| 2016–17 | not published | 276 | 209 |
| 2017–18 | 24 | 198 | 248 |
| 2018–19 | 30 | 273 | 241 |
| 2019–20 | 26 | 281 | 277 |
| 2020–21 | 19 | 324 | 330 |
| 2021–22 | 16 | 290 | 315 |
| 2022–23 | 16 | 325 | 365 |
| 2023–24 | 15 | 273 | 332 |
| 2024–25 | 8 | 300 | 320 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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