Arthroscopy waiting time at Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Mount Barker area of South Australia was 38 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: 38 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 14 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 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 166 days in 2016–17 to 38 days in 2024–25 — down 77% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 28 km away, at 19 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
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital	38 days	not published	14 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.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 28 km away19 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 31 km away127 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 31 km away64 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 32 km away83 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 34 km away78 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 38 km away133 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 38 km away126 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 42 km away95 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	Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	166	56	68
2017–18	25	54	72
2018–19	31	56	75
2019–20	103	65	76
2020–21	18	41	89
2021–22	48	57	85
2022–23	63	45	86
2023–24	55	50	78
2024–25	38	62	78

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

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