Surgery Waits

Keyhole joint surgery waiting times in South Australia

The median wait for keyhole joint surgery in South Australia public hospitals was 62 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 78 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Arthroscopy".

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

25 public hospitals in South Australia reported keyhole joint surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Arthroscopy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

4 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.

Arthroscopy in South Australia public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Gawler Health Service 15 days 0.9% 109 surgeries
2 Flinders Medical Centre 19 days not published 11 surgeries
3 Port Lincoln Health Service 21 days not published 19 surgeries
4 Angaston District Hospital 25 days not published 12 surgeries
5 Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services 26 days not published 25 surgeries
6 Clare Hospital 28 days not published 12 surgeries
7 Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service 36 days 0.0% 54 surgeries
8 Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital 38 days not published 14 surgeries
8 Whyalla Hospital and Health Services 38 days 0.0% 80 surgeries
10 South Coast District Hospital 42 days not published 32 surgeries
11 Port Pirie Regional Health Service 55 days not published 42 surgeries
12 Royal Adelaide Hospital 64 days 12.7% 63 surgeries
13 Noarlunga Hospital 78 days 2.5% 158 surgeries
14 Modbury Hospital 83 days 7.6% 132 surgeries
15 Lyell McEwin Hospital 95 days not published 21 surgeries
16 Naracoorte Health Service 103 days 0.0% 67 surgeries
17 Riverland General Hospital 107 days not published 18 surgeries
18 The Queen Elizabeth Hospital 126 days 14.0% 57 surgeries
19 Women's and Children's Hospital 127 days not published 28 surgeries
20 Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital 133 days not published 45 surgeries
21 Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo) 138 days 0.0% 52 surgeries
unranked Kangaroo Island Health Service not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Kapunda Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Millicent and District Hospital and Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Waikerie Health Service not published not published not published

Ranked by area in South Australia: near the Adelaide CBD · near Bedford Park · near Elizabeth Vale.

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The median wait for keyhole joint surgery in South Australia public hospitals was 62 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Keyhole joint surgery waiting times in South Australia", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/arthroscopy/sa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/arthroscopy/sa/), 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.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in South Australia.