Royal Adelaide Hospital surgery waiting times
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026
Royal Adelaide Hospital is a public hospital in South Australia. It reported 15 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25.
Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed last and is never ranked.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) | 21 days | 160 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Coronary artery bypass grafting | 34 days | 157 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Cystoscopy | 58 days | 525 surgeries | 2.7% |
| Myringotomy | 63 days | 13 surgeries | not published |
| Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) | 100 days | 243 surgeries | 4.9% |
| Total hip replacement | 107 days | 96 surgeries | 8.3% |
| Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) | 118 days | 1017 surgeries | 8.8% |
| Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) | 119 days | 213 surgeries | 8.5% |
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy | 157 days | 94 surgeries | 18.1% |
| Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) | 165 days | 46 surgeries | not published |
| Total knee replacement | 183 days | 92 surgeries | 25.0% |
| Haemorrhoidectomy | 232 days | 30 surgeries | not published |
| Septoplasty | 259 days | 62 surgeries | 14.5% |
| Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty | not published | not published | not published |
| Varicose veins treatment | not published | not published | not published |
Urgency categories
Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 26 days | 60% | 5544 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 107 days | 41% | 3533 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 309 days | 61% | 1139 surgeries |
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.