Breast reconstruction waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital
Half of patients at Royal Adelaide Hospital waited 558 days or less for breast reconstruction in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). This public hospital is in the Adelaide 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
- 558 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 17 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 34 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 34 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 36 days in 2018–19 to 558 days in 2024–25 — up 1450% — while the national median rose from 111 days to 146 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, about 6 km away, at 236 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Breast reconstruction" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Adelaide Hospital | 558 days | not published | 17 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 223 days | 28.5% | 123 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 84 days | 26.8% | 564 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 146 days | 25.7% | 1192 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 146 days marks the national median.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 6 km away: 236 days
Flinders Medical Centre, SA · about 11 km away: 223 days
University Hospital Geelong, VIC · about 629 km away: 71 days
Sunshine Hospital, VIC · about 641 km away: 268 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping], VIC · about 651 km away: 48 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], VIC · about 654 km away: 28 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, VIC · about 654 km away: 125 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], VIC · about 656 km away: 8 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Royal Adelaide Hospital
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Adelaide Hospital (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | not published | 96 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 89 | 118 |
| 2018–19 | 36 | not published | 111 |
| 2019–20 | 112 | not published | 137 |
| 2020–21 | 455 | 138 | 113 |
| 2021–22 | 349 | 174 | 103 |
| 2022–23 | 266 | 235 | 154 |
| 2023–24 | 138 | not published | 149 |
| 2024–25 | 558 | 223 | 146 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Royal Adelaide Hospital · Breast reconstruction across Australia · Breast reconstruction in South Australia · All surgery waits in South Australia