Surgery Waits

Prolapse repair waiting time at Women's and Children's Hospital

The median wait for prolapse repair — published by the source as "Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior" — at this public hospital in the North Adelaide area of South Australia was 352 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
352 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 66 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 52 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 125 days in 2017–18 to 352 days in 2024–25 — up 182% — while the national median rose from 126 days to 165 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, about 31 km away, at 230 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior" 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 Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Women's and Children's Hospital352 daysnot published16 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)224 days31.3%147 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)165 days16.9%2117 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 165 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 vaginal repair - anterior/posterior by financial year at Women's and Children's Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Women's and Children's Hospital 352SA 224Australia 165
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodWomen's and Children's Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published6296
2017–18125105126
2018–1933570111
2019–2032477119
2020–21not published118217
2021–22339235183
2022–23349142220
2023–24282127176
2024–25352224165

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

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