Surgery Waits

Squint surgery waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for squint surgery — published by the source as "Procedure for strabismus (squint repair)" — at this public hospital in the Woodville South area of South Australia, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

The source did not publish a median wait for this surgery at this hospital in 2024–25. Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator. The hospital is shown here unranked rather than ranked on a number that does not exist.

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

Median wait
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Surgeries completed
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — too few
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

This hospital is not ranked for this surgery.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Procedure for strabismus (squint repair), 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Queen Elizabeth Hospitalnot publishednot publishednot published
South Australia (all public hospitals)154 days16.2%105 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)155 days14.4%1087 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital did not publish a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, so there is no list of nearer alternatives to compare it against.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for procedure for strabismus (squint repair) by financial year at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25SA 154Australia 155
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Procedure for strabismus (squint repair), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published8485
2017–18not reported for this period202101
2018–19not reported for this period204123
2019–20not publishednot published146
2020–21not publishednot published168
2021–22not reported for this periodnot published174
2022–23not published101212
2023–24not reported for this periodnot published141
2024–25not published154155

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

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