Dacryocystorhinostomy waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital
The median wait for dacryocystorhinostomy at this public hospital in the Adelaide area of South Australia was 68 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
- 68 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 16 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 10 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 97 days in 2016–17 to 68 days in 2024–25 — down 30% — while the national median rose from 155 days to 254 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Adelaide Hospital | 68 days | not published | 16 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 28 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 254 days | 25.2% | 333 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.
How the wait has changed
- Royal Adelaide Hospital
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Adelaide Hospital (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 97 | not published | 155 |
| 2017–18 | 374 | not published | 135 |
| 2018–19 | 256 | not published | 152 |
| 2019–20 | 133 | not published | 118 |
| 2020–21 | 151 | not published | 256 |
| 2021–22 | 101 | not published | 136 |
| 2022–23 | 149 | not published | 238 |
| 2023–24 | 77 | not published | 211 |
| 2024–25 | 68 | not published | 254 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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