Surgery Waits

Parathyroidectomy waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

The median wait for parathyroidectomy at this public hospital in the Woodville South area of South Australia was 73 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
73 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
21 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 47 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 64 days in 2017–18 to 73 days in 2024–25 — up 14% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 82 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 660 km away, at 71 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Parathyroidectomy" 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Parathyroidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital73 daysnot published21 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published77 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)75 days1.4%355 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)82 days4.0%1304 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 82 days marks the national median.

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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for parathyroidectomy by financial year at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Queen Elizabeth Hospital 73SA 103Australia 82
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Parathyroidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published56
2017–1864not published63
2018–1972not published57
2019–20838063
2020–2175not published69
2021–221197173
2022–2310410384
2023–2476not published87
2024–2573not published82

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

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