Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre
The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 76 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
- 76 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 83 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 3.6%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 52 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 36 days in 2016–17 to 76 days in 2024–25 — up 111% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 95 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 3.6% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 9.8%.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flinders Medical Centre | 76 days | 3.6% | 83 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 84 days | 9.4% | 456 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 95 days | 9.8% | 1477 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 | 36 | 40 | 75 |
| 2017–18 | 86 | 62 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | 75 | 63 | 70 |
| 2019–20 | 92 | 91 | 87 |
| 2020–21 | 69 | 104 | 113 |
| 2021–22 | 93 | 111 | 121 |
| 2022–23 | 140 | 109 | 138 |
| 2023–24 | 67 | 77 | 90 |
| 2024–25 | 76 | 84 | 95 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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