Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Port Lincoln Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) at this public hospital, 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: 32 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 32 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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 Lincoln Health Service	32 days	not published	10 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.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 246 km away87 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 246 km away37 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 246 km away57 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 250 km away32 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 251 km away119 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 257 km away80 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 260 km away95 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 263 km away97 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 Lincoln Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	13	42	51
2012–13	14	30	50
2013–14	13	34	46
2014–15	21	35	43
2015–16	14	39	42
2016–17	15	37	41
2017–18	21	40	45
2018–19	23	43	45
2019–20	19	49	48
2020–21	22	56	56
2021–22	25	64	53
2022–23	20	51	59
2023–24	31	45	46
2024–25	32	58	48

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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