Bone realignment surgery waiting time at Women's and Children's Hospital
Half of patients at Women's and Children's Hospital waited 205 days or less for bone realignment surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Osteotomy". This public hospital is in the North Adelaide 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
- 205 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 18 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 49 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 36 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 49 days in 2016–17 to 205 days in 2024–25 — up 318% — while the national median rose from 76 days to 135 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 2 km away, at 59 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Osteotomy" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's and Children's Hospital | 205 days | not published | 18 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 58 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 206 days | 34.3% | 510 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 135 days | 19.2% | 1866 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 135 days marks the national median.
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA · about 2 km away: 59 days
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 7 km away: 232 days
The Bendigo Hospital, VIC · about 552 km away: 163 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital], VIC · about 555 km away: 32 days
Sunshine Hospital, VIC · about 640 km away: 104 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville], VIC · about 653 km away: 374 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], VIC · about 653 km away: 402 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], VIC · about 655 km away: 92 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
- Women's and Children's Hospital
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Women's and Children's Hospital (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 49 | not published | 76 |
| 2017–18 | 88 | not published | 86 |
| 2018–19 | not published | not published | 90 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | not published | 103 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | not published | 136 |
| 2021–22 | not reported for this period | not published | 122 |
| 2022–23 | not published | not published | 157 |
| 2023–24 | 94 | not published | 152 |
| 2024–25 | 205 | not published | 135 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Women's and Children's Hospital · Bone realignment surgery across Australia · Bone realignment surgery in South Australia · All surgery waits in South Australia