Excess eyelid skin removal waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Half of patients at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital waited 275 days or less for excess eyelid skin removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Blepharoplasty". This public hospital is in the Woodville South 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
- 275 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 329 days in 2023–24 to 275 days in 2024–25 — down 16% — while the national median fell from 262 days to 246 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 6 km away, at 203 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Blepharoplasty" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Queen Elizabeth Hospital | 275 days | not published | 13 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 54 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 189 days | 18.0% | 205 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 246 days | 23.0% | 666 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 246 days marks the national median.
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA · about 6 km away: 203 days
University Hospital Geelong, VIC · about 635 km away: 147 days
Broadmeadows Health Service, VIC · about 651 km away: 154 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], VIC · about 660 km away: 247 days
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, VIC · about 662 km away: 121 days
The Alfred, VIC · about 664 km away: 85 days
Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre, VIC · about 702 km away: 347 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
- The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | not published | 85 |
| 2017–18 | not published | not published | 111 |
| 2018–19 | not published | not published | 126 |
| 2019–20 | not published | not published | 128 |
| 2020–21 | not published | not published | 245 |
| 2021–22 | not published | not published | 149 |
| 2022–23 | not published | not published | 254 |
| 2023–24 | 329 | not published | 262 |
| 2024–25 | 275 | not published | 246 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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