Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Half of patients at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital waited 61 days or less for shoulder joint replacement in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). 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
- 61 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 10 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 89 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 185 days in 2022–23 to 61 days in 2024–25 — down 67% — while the national median fell from 254 days to 174 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service, about 382 km away, at 54 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Queen Elizabeth Hospital | 61 days | not published | 10 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 140 days | 15.3% | 118 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 174 days | 20.4% | 2417 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 174 days marks the national median.
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA · about 6 km away: 158 days
Modbury Hospital, SA · about 15 km away: 156 days
Noarlunga Hospital, SA · about 29 km away: 374 days
Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service, SA · about 382 km away: 54 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
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 | 147 |
| 2017–18 | not published | not published | 152 |
| 2018–19 | not published | not published | 163 |
| 2019–20 | not published | not published | 154 |
| 2020–21 | not published | not published | 246 |
| 2021–22 | not published | not published | 218 |
| 2022–23 | 185 | not published | 254 |
| 2023–24 | 125 | 127 | 192 |
| 2024–25 | 61 | 140 | 174 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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