Laparoscopy waiting time at Riverland General Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Berri area of South Australia was 104 days in 2024–25.

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: 104 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 112 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 26 days in 2017–18 to 104 days in 2024–25 — up 300% — while the national median rose from 51 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Angaston District Hospital, about 144 km away, at 70 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Riverland General Hospital	104 days	not published	15 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	104 days	13.7%	737 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	69 days	5.4%	9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.

Angaston District HospitalSA · about 144 km away70 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 154 km away147 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 182 km away196 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 185 km away112 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 186 km away328 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 196 km away85 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 201 km away155 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 204 km away130 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 Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Riverland General Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	50	47
2017–18	26	63	51
2018–19	18	84	57
2019–20	22	88	64
2020–21	13	101	79
2021–22	19	137	78
2022–23	68	113	82
2023–24	66	90	69
2024–25	104	104	69

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

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