Arthroscopy waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 19 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 150 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 6 days in 2016–17 to 19 days in 2024–25 — up 217% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gawler Health Service, about 51 km away, at 15 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Flinders Medical Centre	19 days	not published	11 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	62 days	3.7%	1061 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	7.1%	8779 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 11 km away64 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 13 km away127 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 15 km away78 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away126 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 24 km away83 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 28 km away38 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 32 km away95 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 51 km away15 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	6	56	68
2017–18	118	54	72
2018–19	161	56	75
2019–20	144	65	76
2020–21	111	41	89
2021–22	not published	57	85
2022–23	not published	45	86
2023–24	not published	50	78
2024–25	19	62	78

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

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