Surgery Waits

Corneal graft waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

The median wait for corneal graft at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 125 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
125 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
27 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 13 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 88 days in 2016–17 to 125 days in 2024–25 — up 42% — while the national median rose from 70 days to 96 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 649 km away, at 116 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Corneal graft" 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 Corneal graft, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Flinders Medical Centre125 daysnot published27 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published50 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)not publishednot published46 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)96 days5.5%398 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 96 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 corneal graft by financial year at Flinders Medical Centre, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Flinders Medical Centre 125Australia 96
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Corneal graft, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodFlinders Medical Centre (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–1788not published70
2017–18111not published79
2018–19101not published78
2019–2086not published77
2020–2181not published73
2021–22162not published83
2022–23112not published83
2023–2478not published103
2024–25125not published96

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

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