Surgery Waits

Amputation of limb waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

The median wait for amputation of limb at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 16 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
16 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
42 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 22 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 21 days in 2018–19 to 16 days in 2024–25 — down 24% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 14 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 11 km away, at 13 days.

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

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Amputation of limb, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Flinders Medical Centre16 daysnot published42 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published86 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)10 days1.2%338 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)14 days1.2%761 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 14 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for amputation of limb by financial year at Flinders Medical Centre, compared with South Australia and Australiadays061319252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Flinders Medical Centre 16SA 14Australia 14
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Amputation of limb, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodFlinders Medical Centre (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published11
2017–18not publishednot published13
2018–1921not published12
2019–209not published11
2020–218not published13
2021–22131714
2022–23131414
2023–24151414
2024–2516not published14

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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