Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital
The median wait for shoulder joint replacement at this public hospital in the Adelaide area of South Australia was 158 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
- 158 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 27 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 89 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 fallen from 224 days in 2019–20 to 158 days in 2024–25 — down 29% — while the national median rose from 154 days to 174 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, about 6 km away, at 61 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Adelaide Hospital | 158 days | not published | 27 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 140 days | 15.3% | 118 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 174 days | 20.4% | 2417 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
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 | not published | not published | 147 |
| 2017–18 | not published | not published | 152 |
| 2018–19 | not published | not published | 163 |
| 2019–20 | 224 | not published | 154 |
| 2020–21 | 428 | not published | 246 |
| 2021–22 | 301 | not published | 218 |
| 2022–23 | 101 | not published | 254 |
| 2023–24 | 115 | 127 | 192 |
| 2024–25 | 158 | 140 | 174 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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