Surgery Waits

Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

The median wait for repair of obstructing hiatus hernia at this public hospital in the Adelaide area of South Australia was 200 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
200 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
47 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 41 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 34 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 56 days in 2023–24 to 200 days in 2024–25 — up 257% — while the national median fell from 89 days to 88 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, about 6 km away, at 124 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital200 daysnot published47 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published85 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)57 days2.0%248 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)88 days9.2%1170 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 88 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 repair of obstructing hiatus hernia by financial year at Royal Adelaide Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Adelaide Hospital 200Australia 88
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Adelaide Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published66
2017–18not publishednot published79
2018–19not publishednot published78
2019–20not reported for this periodnot published81
2020–21not publishednot published91
2021–22not publishednot published98
2022–23not reported for this periodnot published114
2023–2456not published89
2024–25200not published88

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

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