Surgery Waits

Scar revision waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

The median wait for scar revision at this public hospital in the Woodville South area of South Australia was 60 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
60 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 29 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 165 days in 2022–23 to 60 days in 2024–25 — down 64% — while the national median fell from 133 days to 83 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 664 km away, at 5 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Scar revision" 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Scar revision, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital60 daysnot published10 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published74 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)50 days9.1%364 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)83 days9.5%1239 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 83 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for scar revision by financial year at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Queen Elizabeth Hospital 60Australia 83
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Scar revision, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published65
2017–18not publishednot published67
2018–19not publishednot published73
2019–20not publishednot published83
2020–21not publishednot published84
2021–22not publishednot published121
2022–23165not published133
2023–2465not published103
2024–2560not published83

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

All surgery at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital · Scar revision across Australia · Scar revision in South Australia