Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at Noarlunga Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as “Haemorrhoidectomy” — 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: 56 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 23 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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 36 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 7 days in 2011–12 to 56 days in 2024–25 — up 700% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is South Coast District Hospital, about 48 km away, at 24 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Noarlunga Hospital	56 days	not published	23 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	82 days	3.8%	235 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 15 km away69 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 26 km away232 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 29 km away96 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 46 km away93 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 48 km away24 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Noarlunga Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	7	36	57
2012–13	13	19	59
2013–14	7	21	59
2014–15	21	30	56
2015–16	12	31	54
2016–17	32	42	49
2017–18	34	49	47
2018–19	29	45	49
2019–20	44	51	57
2020–21	58	85	70
2021–22	34	73	77
2022–23	71	72	90
2023–24	51	61	67
2024–25	56	82	63

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

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