Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre
The median wait for acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 306 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 306 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 10 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 43 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 42 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 291 days in 2018–19 to 306 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median fell from 98 days to 92 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 11 km away, at 135 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flinders Medical Centre | 306 days | not published | 10 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 106 days | 9.4% | 202 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 92 days | 6.3% | 1418 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Flinders Medical Centre
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Flinders Medical Centre (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not published | 85 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 97 | 95 |
| 2018–19 | 291 | 91 | 98 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 83 | 108 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 163 | 141 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 105 | 131 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 79 | 154 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 109 | 101 |
| 2024–25 | 306 | 106 | 92 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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