Surgery Waits

Squint surgery waiting times in South Australia

Public hospitals in South Australia ranked by their median wait for squint surgery, published by the source as "Procedure for strabismus (squint repair)".

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

5 public hospitals in South Australia reported squint surgery in 2024–25. The state median was 154 days; the national median was 155 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Procedure for strabismus (squint repair)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

2 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 155 days marks the national median.

Procedure for strabismus (squint repair) 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 Women's and Children's Hospital 128 days not published 38 surgeries
2 Royal Adelaide Hospital 140 days not published 14 surgeries
3 Flinders Medical Centre 164 days not published 49 surgeries
unranked Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital not published not published not published
unranked The Queen Elizabeth 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.