Pterygium - excision of waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
The median wait for pterygium - excision of at this public hospital in the Woodville South area of South Australia was 387 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
- 387 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 10 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 61 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 349 days in 2019–20 to 387 days in 2024–25 — up 11% — while the national median rose from 155 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 6 km away, at 155 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Pterygium - excision of" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Queen Elizabeth Hospital | 387 days | not published | 10 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 117 days | 14.5% | 173 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 197 days | 15.7% | 2442 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
- The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | not published | 128 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 115 | 152 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 177 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | 349 | 190 | 155 |
| 2020–21 | 182 | 309 | 230 |
| 2021–22 | 98 | 270 | 238 |
| 2022–23 | 238 | 203 | 241 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 165 | 191 |
| 2024–25 | 387 | 117 | 197 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital · Pterygium - excision of across Australia · Pterygium - excision of in South Australia