Surgery Waits

Functional endoscopic sinus surgery waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

The median wait for functional endoscopic sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 116 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
116 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
63 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
15.9%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 64 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 risen from 92 days in 2016–17 to 116 days in 2024–25 — up 26% — while the national median rose from 111 days to 214 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 15.9% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 22.7%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Flinders Medical Centre116 days15.9%63 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)267 days28.9%318 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)214 days22.7%2508 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 214 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for functional endoscopic sinus surgery by financial year at Flinders Medical Centre, compared with South Australia and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Flinders Medical Centre 116SA 267Australia 214
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodFlinders Medical Centre (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–1792not published111
2017–1811093119
2018–19302139139
2019–2015290127
2020–21332190217
2021–22286276154
2022–23342323292
2023–24330260274
2024–25116267214

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

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