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title: "Joint fusion surgery near the Adelaide CBD"
description: "Public hospitals in or near the Adelaide CBD ranked by median wait for joint fusion surgery, 2024–25. Shortest wait: 116 days."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/arthrodesis/near/adelaide-cbd/"
---

# Joint fusion surgery near the Adelaide CBD

Near the Adelaide CBD, [Royal Adelaide Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-adelaide-hospital/arthrodesis/) had the shortest median wait for joint fusion surgery in 2024–25: **116 days** (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

2 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for joint fusion surgery, shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. The source publishes this surgery as "Arthrodesis".

## Hospitals in or near the Adelaide CBD

Arthrodesis at public hospitals in or near the Adelaide CBD, 2024–25, by median wait. Hospitals with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

| Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Royal Adelaide Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-adelaide-hospital/arthrodesis/) | 116 days | not published | Adelaide CBD, SA. In this area. |
| 2 | [The Queen Elizabeth Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/the-queen-elizabeth-hospital/arthrodesis/) | 248 days | not published | Woodville South, SA. In this area. |

This area covers Royal Adelaide Hospital and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Central Adelaide". A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that.

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> Near the Adelaide CBD, Royal Adelaide Hospital had the shortest median wait for joint fusion surgery in 2024–25: 116 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Joint fusion surgery near the Adelaide CBD", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/arthrodesis/near/adelaide-cbd/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/arthrodesis/near/adelaide-cbd/](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/arthrodesis/near/adelaide-cbd/)), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

## What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

See [every South Australia hospital for joint fusion surgery](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/arthrodesis/sa/), or every hospital in [Central Adelaide](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/central-adelaide/).

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

**In an emergency call 000.**

Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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