Gallbladder removal waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Woodville South 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: 87 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 148 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.4%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 153 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 27 days in 2011–12 to 87 days in 2024–25 — up 222% — 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 16 km away, at 32 days. Here, 1.4% 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
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	87 days	1.4%	148 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 6 km away119 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 15 km away95 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 16 km away32 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away80 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 29 km away37 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 38 km away32 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 38 km away19 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 73 km away69 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	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	27	42	51
2012–13	26	30	50
2013–14	34	34	46
2014–15	47	35	43
2015–16	54	39	42
2016–17	32	37	41
2017–18	46	40	45
2018–19	34	43	45
2019–20	38	49	48
2020–21	54	56	56
2021–22	119	64	53
2022–23	112	51	59
2023–24	96	45	46
2024–25	87	58	48

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

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