Keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) waiting time at Whyalla Hospital and Health Services
Half of patients at Whyalla Hospital and Health Services waited 64 days or less for keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Laparoscopy". This public hospital is in the Whyalla 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
- 64 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 10 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 65 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 11 days in 2018–19 to 64 days in 2024–25 — up 482% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 69 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Laparoscopy" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whyalla Hospital and Health Services | 64 days | not published | 10 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 Hospital, SA · about 213 km away: 70 days
Lyell McEwin Hospital, SA · about 215 km away: 112 days
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 224 km away: 155 days
Modbury Hospital, SA · about 225 km away: 328 days
Women's and Children's Hospital, SA · about 229 km away: 85 days
Flinders Medical Centre, SA · about 239 km away: 130 days
Noarlunga Hospital, SA · about 249 km away: 149 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Whyalla Hospital and Health Services
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Whyalla Hospital and Health Services (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 50 | 47 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 63 | 51 |
| 2018–19 | 11 | 84 | 57 |
| 2019–20 | 11 | 88 | 64 |
| 2020–21 | 7 | 101 | 79 |
| 2021–22 | 11 | 137 | 78 |
| 2022–23 | 20 | 113 | 82 |
| 2023–24 | 21 | 90 | 69 |
| 2024–25 | 64 | 104 | 69 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Whyalla Hospital and Health Services · Keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) across Australia · Keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) in South Australia · All surgery waits in South Australia