Surgery Waits

Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Noarlunga Hospital

The median wait for varicose vein surgery — published by the source as "Varicose veins treatment" — at this public hospital in the Noarlunga Centre area of South Australia was 342 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
342 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
45 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 58 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 386 days in 2018–19 to 342 days in 2024–25 — down 11% — while the national median rose from 108 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 15 km away, at 230 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Varicose veins treatment" 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Varicose veins treatment, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Noarlunga Hospital342 daysnot published45 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)206 days31.6%114 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)80 days9.0%1224 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)133 days9.5%3346 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 133 days marks the national median.

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 — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for varicose veins treatment by financial year at Noarlunga Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays01252503755002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Noarlunga Hospital 342SA 206Australia 133
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Varicose veins treatment, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodNoarlunga Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not published119103
2012–13not published8896
2013–14not published6097
2014–15not published77105
2015–16not published80104
2016–17not published8090
2017–18not published168101
2018–19386205108
2019–20135119129
2020–21not published155223
2021–22not reported for this period243208
2022–23415249216
2023–24396not published189
2024–25342206133

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

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