Surgery Waits

Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the Adelaide area of South Australia was 174 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
174 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
48 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 52 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 42 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 76 days in 2016–17 to 174 days in 2024–25 — up 129% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Women's and Children's Hospital, about 2 km away, at 87 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hydrocele - repair of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital174 daysnot published48 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)84 days9.4%456 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)95 days9.8%1477 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 95 days marks the national median.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hydrocele - repair of by financial year at Royal Adelaide Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Adelaide Hospital 174SA 84Australia 95
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Hydrocele - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Adelaide Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17764075
2017–182046270
2018–191376370
2019–201029187
2020–21134104113
2021–22213111121
2022–23177109138
2023–241587790
2024–251748495

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

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