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Deviated septum surgery waiting times in South Australia

The median wait for deviated septum surgery in South Australia public hospitals was 300 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 320 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Septoplasty".

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

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

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

3 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 320 days marks the national median.

Septoplasty 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 Port Lincoln Health Service 8 days not published 13 surgeries
2 Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service 44 days not published 10 surgeries
3 South Coast District Hospital 90 days not published 10 surgeries
4 Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services 194 days not published 12 surgeries
5 The Queen Elizabeth Hospital 217 days 17.8% 90 surgeries
6 Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital 231 days not published 16 surgeries
7 Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital 237 days not published 16 surgeries
8 Royal Adelaide Hospital 259 days 14.5% 62 surgeries
9 Noarlunga Hospital 312 days 13.7% 73 surgeries
10 Flinders Medical Centre 329 days 10.4% 106 surgeries
11 Modbury Hospital 351 days 39.3% 56 surgeries
12 Gawler Health Service 364 days not published 25 surgeries
13 Lyell McEwin Hospital 391 days 57.9% 57 surgeries
14 Port Pirie Regional Health Service 513 days not published 17 surgeries
unranked Clare Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Riverland General Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Women's and Children's Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries

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

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The median wait for deviated septum surgery in South Australia public hospitals was 300 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Deviated septum surgery waiting times in SA", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/septoplasty/sa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/septoplasty/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.