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title: "Category 3 (non-urgent) waiting times in South Australia"
description: "Category 3 (non-urgent) planned surgery in South Australia: the recommended maximum wait of 365 days, and each public hospital's on-time share for 2024–25."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-3/sa/"
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# Category 3 (non-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 [Ceduna District Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/ceduna-district-health-service/) down to **43%** 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 3 (non-urgent)** means surgery is recommended within **365 days** of being placed on the waiting list. Surgery for a condition causing minimal pain, dysfunction or disability, and unlikely to deteriorate quickly. The table ranks South Australia's public hospitals by the share of non-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 3 (non-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 | [Ceduna District Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/ceduna-district-health-service/) | 100% | 14 days | 51 surgeries |
| 1 | [Jamestown Hospital and Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/jamestown-hospital-and-health-service/) | 100% | 21 days | 45 surgeries |
| 1 | [Kangaroo Island Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/kangaroo-island-health-service/) | 100% | 11 days | 19 surgeries |
| 1 | [Millicent and District Hospital and Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/millicent-and-district-hospital-and-health-service/) | 100% | 33 days | 30 surgeries |
| 1 | [Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/port-augusta-hospital-and-regional-health-services/) | 100% | 121 days | 370 surgeries |
| 1 | [Port Lincoln Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/port-lincoln-health-service/) | 100% | 17 days | 587 surgeries |
| 1 | [Renmark Paringa District Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/renmark-paringa-district-hospital/) | 100% | 30 days | 26 surgeries |
| 1 | [Waikerie Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/waikerie-health-service/) | 100% | 21 days | 11 surgeries |
| 9 | [Angaston District Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/angaston-district-hospital/) | 99% | 53 days | 433 surgeries |
| 9 | [Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/mount-barker-district-soldiers-memorial-hospital/) | 99% | 204 days | 878 surgeries |
| 11 | [Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/murray-bridge-soldiers-memorial-hospital/) | 98% | 77 days | 341 surgeries |
| 12 | [Clare Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/clare-hospital/) | 97% | 30 days | 398 surgeries |
| 12 | [Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/mount-gambier-and-districts-health-service/) | 97% | 216 days | 996 surgeries |
| 14 | [South Coast District Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/south-coast-district-hospital/) | 96% | 18 days | 950 surgeries |
| 14 | [Whyalla Hospital and Health Services](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/whyalla-hospital-and-health-services/) | 96% | 203 days | 410 surgeries |
| 16 | [Naracoorte Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/naracoorte-health-service/) | 90% | 127 days | 232 surgeries |
| 16 | [Riverland General Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/riverland-general-hospital/) | 90% | 136 days | 729 surgeries |
| 18 | [Gawler Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/gawler-health-service/) | 87% | 55 days | 1007 surgeries |
| 19 | [Crystal Brook and District Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/crystal-brook-and-district-hospital/) | 83% | 50 days | 12 surgeries |
| 20 | [Flinders Medical Centre](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/flinders-medical-centre/) | 82% | 168 days | 2485 surgeries |
| 21 | [Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/northern-yorke-peninsula-health-service-wallaroo/) | 76% | 140 days | 310 surgeries |
| 22 | [Noarlunga Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/noarlunga-hospital/) | 73% | 334 days | 1125 surgeries |
| 23 | [Modbury Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/modbury-hospital/) | 70% | 334 days | 1036 surgeries |
| 24 | [Women's and Children's Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/womens-and-childrens-hospital/) | 69% | 339 days | 842 surgeries |
| 25 | [Port Pirie Regional Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/port-pirie-regional-health-service/) | 65% | 280 days | 526 surgeries |
| 26 | [Royal Adelaide Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-adelaide-hospital/) | 61% | 309 days | 1139 surgeries |
| 27 | [Lyell McEwin Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/lyell-mcewin-hospital/) | 51% | 365 days | 595 surgeries |
| 28 | [The Queen Elizabeth Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/the-queen-elizabeth-hospital/) | 43% | 393 days | 1200 surgeries |
| unranked | [Bordertown Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bordertown-memorial-hospital/) | not published | not published | not published |
| unranked | [Kapunda Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/kapunda-hospital/) | not published | not published | 5 surgeries |
| unranked | [Loxton Hospital Complex](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/loxton-hospital-complex/) | not published | not published | 8 surgeries |

## 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-3/), 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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