Pterygium (eye growth) removal waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital
Half of patients at Royal Adelaide Hospital waited 155 days or less for pterygium (eye growth) removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Pterygium - excision of". 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
- 155 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 49 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 85 days in 2016–17 to 155 days in 2024–25 — up 82% — while the national median rose from 128 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 11 km away, at 82 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Adelaide Hospital | 155 days | not published | 49 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 117 days | 14.5% | 173 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 197 days | 15.7% | 2442 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 days marks the national median.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 6 km away: 387 days
Flinders Medical Centre, SA · about 11 km away: 82 days
Modbury Hospital, SA · about 13 km away: 63 days
Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service, SA · about 376 km away: 240 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
- Royal Adelaide Hospital
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Adelaide Hospital (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 85 | not published | 128 |
| 2017–18 | 319 | 115 | 152 |
| 2018–19 | 175 | 177 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | 286 | 190 | 155 |
| 2020–21 | 387 | 309 | 230 |
| 2021–22 | 414 | 270 | 238 |
| 2022–23 | 330 | 203 | 241 |
| 2023–24 | 260 | 165 | 191 |
| 2024–25 | 155 | 117 | 197 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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