Hydrocele surgery waiting time at Naracoorte Health Service
Half of patients at Naracoorte Health Service waited 18 days or less for hydrocele surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Hydrocele - repair of". This public hospital is in the Naracoorte area of South Australia.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 18 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 11 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 52 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Hydrocele - repair of" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naracoorte Health Service | 18 days | not published | 11 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 84 days | 9.4% | 456 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 95 days | 9.8% | 1477 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 95 days marks the national median.
Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service, SA · about 93 km away: 29 days
Noarlunga Hospital, SA · about 286 km away: 105 days
Flinders Medical Centre, SA · about 292 km away: 76 days
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA · about 299 km away: 174 days
Women's and Children's Hospital, SA · about 299 km away: 87 days
Modbury Hospital, SA · about 301 km away: 182 days
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 305 km away: 155 days
Lyell McEwin Hospital, SA · about 310 km away: 99 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
- Naracoorte Health Service
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Naracoorte Health Service (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 40 | 75 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 62 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 63 | 70 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 91 | 87 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 104 | 113 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 111 | 121 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 109 | 138 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 77 | 90 |
| 2024–25 | 18 | 84 | 95 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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