Breast reconstruction waiting times in South Australia

Public hospitals in South Australia ranked by their median wait for breast reconstruction.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

7 public hospitals in South Australia reported breast reconstruction in 2024–25. The state median was 223 days; the national median was 146 days.

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

4 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 146 days marks the national median.

Flinders Medical Centre223 days
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital236 days
Royal Adelaide Hospital558 days
Lyell McEwin Hospitalnot published
Noarlunga Hospitalnot published
Port Pirie Regional Health Servicenot published
Women's and Children's Hospitalnot published

Breast reconstruction in South Australia public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	Hospital	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Flinders Medical Centre	223 days	28.1%	57 surgeries
2	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	236 days	not published	37 surgeries
3	Royal Adelaide Hospital	558 days	not published	17 surgeries
unranked	Lyell McEwin Hospital	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Noarlunga Hospital	not published	not published	8 surgeries
unranked	Port Pirie Regional Health Service	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Women's and Children's Hospital	not published	not published	not published

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in South Australia.