Gallbladder removal waiting time at South Coast District Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Victor Harbor area of South Australia was 14 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: 14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 17 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 176 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 20 days in 2012–13 to 14 days in 2024–25 — down 30% — while the national median fell from 50 days to 48 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
South Coast District Hospital	14 days	not published	17 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	58 days	2.9%	1396 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	48 days	2.3%	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.

Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 48 km away37 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 58 km away32 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 60 km away32 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 71 km away119 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 76 km away87 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 78 km away69 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 81 km away95 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 91 km away80 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 Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	South Coast District Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not published	42	51
2012–13	20	30	50
2013–14	15	34	46
2014–15	10	35	43
2015–16	not published	39	42
2016–17	8	37	41
2017–18	8	40	45
2018–19	10	43	45
2019–20	not published	49	48
2020–21	not published	56	56
2021–22	not published	64	53
2022–23	not published	51	59
2023–24	23	45	46
2024–25	14	58	48

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

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