Lithotripsy waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Lithotripsy 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: 50 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 27 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 49 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 34 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 Lithotripsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	50 days	not published	27 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.0%	150 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	26 days	0.4%	675 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.8%	2881 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 6 km away51 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 16 km away22 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 29 km away24 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 558 km away176 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 562 km away22 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 642 km away62 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 645 km away151 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 657 km away33 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Lithotripsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	not published	34
2017–18	31	not published	29
2018–19	not published	not published	36
2019–20	40	35	28
2020–21	48	29	34
2021–22	109	26	33
2022–23	50	not published	30
2023–24	49	not published	28
2024–25	50	28	28

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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