Surgery Waits

Gallbladder removal waiting time at Modbury Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Modbury area of South Australia was 95 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
95 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
67 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
3.0%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 161 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 36 days in 2011–12 to 95 days in 2024–25 — up 164% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lyell McEwin Hospital, about 10 km away, at 80 days. Here, 3.0% 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
Modbury Hospital95 days3.0%67 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)58 days2.9%1396 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)48 days2.3%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) by financial year at Modbury Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays038751131502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Modbury Hospital 95SA 58Australia 48
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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 periodModbury Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12364251
2012–13343050
2013–14423446
2014–15423543
2015–16373942
2016–17503741
2017–18674045
2018–19534345
2019–20574948
2020–211295656
2021–22866453
2022–231045159
2023–24774546
2024–25955848

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

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