Gallbladder removal waiting time at Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Port Augusta 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: 34 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 19 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 38 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2011–12 (34 days) — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gawler Health Service, about 249 km away, at 19 days.

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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
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services	34 days	not published	19 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.

Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 61 km away57 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 77 km away97 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 249 km away19 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 262 km away80 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 272 km away95 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 273 km away87 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 278 km away119 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 289 km away32 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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	Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	34	42	51
2012–13	21	30	50
2013–14	28	34	46
2014–15	26	35	43
2015–16	27	39	42
2016–17	21	37	41
2017–18	16	40	45
2018–19	16	43	45
2019–20	22	49	48
2020–21	35	56	56
2021–22	19	64	53
2022–23	16	51	59
2023–24	26	45	46
2024–25	34	58	48

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

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