South Australia: Category 1, urgent
Surgery in category 1, urgent, is recommended within 30 days of joining the waiting list. In South Australia, 25 public hospitals published a share treated on time in 2024–25.
Your treating specialist assigns the category after assessing you. The recommended time is a target.
Hospitals in South Australia
The highest share treated within the recommended time comes first. A hospital with no published share follows, in name order, and has no rank.
A rank compares a hospital with every public hospital in Australia that published the same figure for the same period. The page shows a rank only on a current published figure. It never ranks a withheld or unreported figure. It also never ranks a figure from an earlier period.
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| Hospital | Treated within the recommended time | Median wait | Patients treated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ceduna District Health Service | 100%Rank 1st of 234 nationally | 2 daysRank 3rd of 234 nationally | 18 surgeries |
| Clare Hospital | 100%Rank 1st of 234 nationally | 7 daysRank 21st of 234 nationally | 10 surgeries |
| Crystal Brook and District Hospital | 100%Rank 1st of 234 nationally | 7 daysRank 21st of 234 nationally | 11 surgeries |
| Kangaroo Island Health Service | 100%Rank 1st of 234 nationally | 6 daysRank 15th of 234 nationally | 19 surgeries |
| Women's and Children's Hospital | 100%Rank 1st of 234 nationally | 10 daysRank 56th of 234 nationally | 1,254 surgeries |
| Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo) | 99%Rank 107th of 234 nationally | 14 daysRank 104th of 234 nationally | 65 surgeries |
| Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital | 98%Rank 124th of 234 nationally | 5 daysRank 8th of 234 nationally | 89 surgeries |
| Lyell McEwin Hospital | 97%Rank 134th of 234 nationally | 18 daysRank 167th of 234 nationally | 1,287 surgeries |
| Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital | 96%Rank 139th of 234 nationally | 15 daysRank 131st of 234 nationally | 48 surgeries |
| Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services | 96%Rank 139th of 234 nationally | 9 daysRank 40th of 234 nationally | 128 surgeries |
| Riverland General Hospital | 94%Rank 152nd of 234 nationally | 13 daysRank 83rd of 234 nationally | 196 surgeries |
| Modbury Hospital | 93%Rank 157th of 234 nationally | 25 daysRank 222nd of 234 nationally | 1,332 surgeries |
| Noarlunga Hospital | 93%Rank 157th of 234 nationally | 21 daysRank 193rd of 234 nationally | 1,735 surgeries |
| Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service | 92%Rank 168th of 234 nationally | 9 daysRank 40th of 234 nationally | 396 surgeries |
| Port Lincoln Health Service | 92%Rank 168th of 234 nationally | 13 daysRank 83rd of 234 nationally | 112 surgeries |
| Angaston District Hospital | 91%Rank 175th of 234 nationally | 14 daysRank 104th of 234 nationally | 43 surgeries |
| Flinders Medical Centre | 91%Rank 175th of 234 nationally | 15 daysRank 131st of 234 nationally | 4,412 surgeries |
| South Coast District Hospital | 89%Rank 184th of 234 nationally | 14 daysRank 104th of 234 nationally | 102 surgeries |
| Naracoorte Health Service | 88%Rank 187th of 234 nationally | 16 daysRank 147th of 234 nationally | 77 surgeries |
| Gawler Health Service | 85%Rank 196th of 234 nationally | 14 daysRank 104th of 234 nationally | 119 surgeries |
| Millicent and District Hospital and Health Service | 82%Rank 200th of 234 nationally | 13 daysRank 83rd of 234 nationally | 34 surgeries |
| Port Pirie Regional Health Service | 75%Rank 212th of 234 nationally | 27 daysRank 227th of 234 nationally | 93 surgeries |
| Whyalla Hospital and Health Services | 74%Rank 217th of 234 nationally | 19 daysRank 177th of 234 nationally | 339 surgeries |
| The Queen Elizabeth Hospital | 68%Rank 223rd of 234 nationally | 22 daysRank 208th of 234 nationally | 2,672 surgeries |
| Royal Adelaide Hospital | 60%Rank 229th of 234 nationally | 26 daysRank 224th of 234 nationally | 5,544 surgeries |
| Bordertown Memorial Hospital | not published: no patients reported | not published: no patients reported | not published: no patients reported |
| Jamestown Hospital and Health Service | not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure | not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure | 8 surgeries |
| Kapunda Hospital | not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure | not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure | 5 surgeries |
| Loxton Hospital Complex | not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure | not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure | not published: too few patients |
| Renmark Paringa District Hospital | not published: no patients reported | not published: no patients reported | not published: no patients reported |
| Waikerie Health Service | not published: no patients reported | not published: no patients reported | not published: no patients reported |
All of Australia: Category 1, urgent
South Australia: planned surgery waiting times
Other urgency categories
Each link opens the same figures for one of the other two categories.
What this page leaves out
Private hospitals are excluded. This page covers public hospitals only, so it shows no private hospital.
Before you use these figures
Surgery Waits is not medical advice. Your general practitioner and your treating specialist can help you decide what is right for you.
In an emergency, call 000.
Where this data comes from
- Dataset on publicdata.au
- Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia
- Publisher
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Version
- 3 October 2026
- Data released
- 19 August 2026
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- How to cite this data
- Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/v/2026-10-03/
- Dataset on publicdata.au
- Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia
- Publisher
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Version
- 3 October 2026
- Data released
- 19 August 2026
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- How to cite this data
- Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, mapping details extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/v/2026-10-03/
- Dataset on publicdata.au
- Reported measures and their codes in MyHospitals, Australia
- Publisher
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Version
- 27 October 2026
- Data released
- The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- How to cite this data
- Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reported measures, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reported-measures/v/2026-10-27/
- Dataset on publicdata.au
- Reporting unit mappings to health networks and states in MyHospitals, Australia
- Publisher
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Version
- 27 October 2026
- Data released
- The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- How to cite this data
- Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-unit-mappings/v/2026-10-27/
- Dataset on publicdata.au
- Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia
- Publisher
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Version
- 27 October 2026
- Data released
- The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- How to cite this data
- Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/