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title: "Category 2 (semi-urgent) waiting times in South Australia"
description: "Category 2 (semi-urgent) planned surgery in South Australia: the recommended maximum wait of 90 days, and each public hospital's on-time share for 2024–25."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-2/sa/"
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# Category 2 (semi-urgent) waiting times in South Australia

Of the 28 public hospitals that published a figure for 2024–25, the share treated on time ranged from **100%** at [Kangaroo Island Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/kangaroo-island-health-service/) down to **39%** at [The Queen Elizabeth Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/the-queen-elizabeth-hospital/).

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

**Category 2 (semi-urgent)** means surgery is recommended within **90 days** of being placed on the waiting list. Surgery for a condition causing pain, dysfunction or disability, but unlikely to deteriorate quickly. The table ranks South Australia's public hospitals by the share of semi-urgent patients treated within that time in 2024–25.

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures.

Category 2 (semi-urgent) planned surgery at South Australia public hospitals, 2024–25, ranked by the share treated within the recommended time — highest first. Hospitals with the same figure share a rank; a hospital with no published figure is listed unranked. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

| Rank | Hospital | Treated on time | Median wait | Surgeries |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Kangaroo Island Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/kangaroo-island-health-service/) | 100% | 11 days | 42 surgeries |
| 1 | [Renmark Paringa District Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/renmark-paringa-district-hospital/) | 100% | 31 days | 26 surgeries |
| 3 | [Clare Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/clare-hospital/) | 99% | 18 days | 92 surgeries |
| 3 | [Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/port-augusta-hospital-and-regional-health-services/) | 99% | 29 days | 172 surgeries |
| 5 | [Port Lincoln Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/port-lincoln-health-service/) | 98% | 24 days | 241 surgeries |
| 6 | [Ceduna District Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/ceduna-district-health-service/) | 96% | 29 days | 22 surgeries |
| 6 | [Kapunda Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/kapunda-hospital/) | 96% | 19 days | 22 surgeries |
| 6 | [Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/northern-yorke-peninsula-health-service-wallaroo/) | 96% | 25 days | 461 surgeries |
| 9 | [Angaston District Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/angaston-district-hospital/) | 95% | 38 days | 176 surgeries |
| 10 | [Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/mount-barker-district-soldiers-memorial-hospital/) | 94% | 41 days | 382 surgeries |
| 10 | [South Coast District Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/south-coast-district-hospital/) | 94% | 21 days | 473 surgeries |
| 12 | [Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/murray-bridge-soldiers-memorial-hospital/) | 92% | 26 days | 286 surgeries |
| 13 | [Millicent and District Hospital and Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/millicent-and-district-hospital-and-health-service/) | 90% | 34 days | 127 surgeries |
| 14 | [Gawler Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/gawler-health-service/) | 89% | 15 days | 398 surgeries |
| 14 | [Naracoorte Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/naracoorte-health-service/) | 89% | 44 days | 355 surgeries |
| 16 | [Whyalla Hospital and Health Services](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/whyalla-hospital-and-health-services/) | 88% | 62 days | 537 surgeries |
| 17 | [Jamestown Hospital and Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/jamestown-hospital-and-health-service/) | 87% | 25 days | 23 surgeries |
| 17 | [Riverland General Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/riverland-general-hospital/) | 87% | 47 days | 610 surgeries |
| 19 | [Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/mount-gambier-and-districts-health-service/) | 86% | 38 days | 811 surgeries |
| 20 | [Modbury Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/modbury-hospital/) | 61% | 78 days | 2800 surgeries |
| 21 | [Port Pirie Regional Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/port-pirie-regional-health-service/) | 59% | 82 days | 312 surgeries |
| 22 | [Flinders Medical Centre](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/flinders-medical-centre/) | 57% | 82 days | 3797 surgeries |
| 22 | [Women's and Children's Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/womens-and-childrens-hospital/) | 57% | 86 days | 2580 surgeries |
| 24 | [Crystal Brook and District Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/crystal-brook-and-district-hospital/) | 52% | 86 days | 50 surgeries |
| 25 | [Noarlunga Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/noarlunga-hospital/) | 51% | 90 days | 1722 surgeries |
| 26 | [Lyell McEwin Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/lyell-mcewin-hospital/) | 41% | 98 days | 2015 surgeries |
| 26 | [Royal Adelaide Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-adelaide-hospital/) | 41% | 107 days | 3533 surgeries |
| 28 | [The Queen Elizabeth Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/the-queen-elizabeth-hospital/) | 39% | 109 days | 2405 surgeries |
| unranked | [Bordertown Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bordertown-memorial-hospital/) | not published | not published | not published |
| unranked | [Loxton Hospital Complex](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/loxton-hospital-complex/) | not published | not published | not published |
| unranked | [Waikerie Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/waikerie-health-service/) | not published | not published | not published |

## What is not here

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

Compare with [every state's hospitals](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-2/), see [South Australia's waiting times by surgery](https://surgerywaits.au/state/sa/), or start from [what the urgency categories mean](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/).

## 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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