Surgery Waits

Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the Woodville South area of South Australia was 155 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
155 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
22 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 52 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 38 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 155 days in 2024–25 — up 454% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Women's and Children's Hospital, about 7 km away, at 87 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hydrocele - repair of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital155 daysnot published22 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)84 days9.4%456 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)95 days9.8%1477 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 95 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hydrocele - repair of by financial year at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Queen Elizabeth Hospital 155SA 84Australia 95
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Hydrocele - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17284075
2017–18486270
2018–19446370
2019–20759187
2020–21116104113
2021–22131111121
2022–23194109138
2023–241387790
2024–251558495

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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