Gallbladder removal waiting time at Noarlunga Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Noarlunga Centre 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: 37 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 52 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.9%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 12 days in 2011–12 to 37 days in 2024–25 — up 208% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 15 km away, at 32 days. Here, 1.9% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.3%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Noarlunga Hospital	37 days	1.9%	52 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	58 days	2.9%	1396 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.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 15 km away32 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 26 km away119 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 29 km away87 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 34 km away32 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 38 km away95 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 46 km away80 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 48 km away14 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 65 km away19 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

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	Noarlunga Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	12	42	51
2012–13	13	30	50
2013–14	14	34	46
2014–15	13	35	43
2015–16	13	39	42
2016–17	14	37	41
2017–18	28	40	45
2018–19	43	43	45
2019–20	38	49	48
2020–21	33	56	56
2021–22	33	64	53
2022–23	51	51	59
2023–24	28	45	46
2024–25	37	58	48

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

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