Droopy eyelid repair waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital
Half of patients at Royal Adelaide Hospital waited 117 days or less for droopy eyelid repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Ptosis - repair 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
- 117 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 20 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 30 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 6 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 359 days in 2017–18 to 117 days in 2024–25 — down 67% — while the national median rose from 175 days to 238 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Modbury Hospital, about 13 km away, at 73 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Ptosis - repair of" 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 | 117 days | not published | 20 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 46 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 75 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 238 days | 25.4% | 781 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 238 days marks the national median.
Modbury Hospital, SA · about 13 km away: 73 days
Broadmeadows Health Service, VIC · about 645 km away: 145 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville], VIC · about 653 km away: 779 days
The Alfred, VIC · about 658 km away: 104 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 | 141 |
| 2017–18 | 359 | not published | 175 |
| 2018–19 | 271 | not published | 181 |
| 2019–20 | 240 | not published | 245 |
| 2020–21 | 358 | not published | 303 |
| 2021–22 | 370 | not published | 263 |
| 2022–23 | 378 | not published | 251 |
| 2023–24 | 154 | not published | 240 |
| 2024–25 | 117 | not published | 238 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Royal Adelaide Hospital · Droopy eyelid repair across Australia · Droopy eyelid repair in South Australia · All surgery waits in South Australia