Hiatus hernia repair waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Half of patients at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital waited 124 days or less for hiatus hernia repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia". 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
- 124 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 14 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 41 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 27 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 48 days in 2021–22 to 124 days in 2024–25 — up 158% — while the national median fell from 98 days to 88 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 16 km away, at 80 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia" 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 | 124 days | not published | 14 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 85 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 57 days | 2.0% | 248 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 88 days | 9.2% | 1170 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 88 days marks the national median.
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA · about 6 km away: 200 days
Flinders Medical Centre, SA · about 16 km away: 80 days
The Alfred, VIC · about 664 km away: 40 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], VIC · about 665 km away: 54 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], VIC · about 666 km away: 62 days
Sandringham Hospital, VIC · about 673 km away: 23 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], VIC · about 682 km away: 109 days
Frankston Hospital, VIC · about 692 km away: 71 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 | 66 |
| 2017–18 | not published | not published | 79 |
| 2018–19 | not published | not published | 78 |
| 2019–20 | not published | not published | 81 |
| 2020–21 | not published | not published | 91 |
| 2021–22 | 48 | not published | 98 |
| 2022–23 | 128 | not published | 114 |
| 2023–24 | 111 | not published | 89 |
| 2024–25 | 124 | not published | 88 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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