Gallbladder removal waiting time at Naracoorte Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Naracoorte area of South Australia, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 12 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 176 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 55 days in 2011–12 to 12 days in 2024–25 — down 78% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” 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 Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Naracoorte Health Service	12 days	not published	12 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	58 days	2.9%	1396 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	28 days	1.2%	4488 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	48 days	2.3%	18067 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 48 days marks the national median.

Millicent and District Hospital and Health ServiceSA · about 78 km away33 days
Mount Gambier and Districts Health ServiceSA · about 93 km away25 days
South West Healthcare [Warrnambool]VIC · about 219 km away28 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 243 km away69 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 247 km away14 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 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

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Naracoorte Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	55	42	51
2012–13	41	30	50
2013–14	25	34	46
2014–15	34	35	43
2015–16	24	39	42
2016–17	26	37	41
2017–18	not published	40	45
2018–19	not published	43	45
2019–20	not published	49	48
2020–21	15	56	56
2021–22	not published	64	53
2022–23	30	51	59
2023–24	41	45	46
2024–25	12	58	48

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

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