Gallbladder removal waiting time at Whyalla Hospital and Health Services

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Whyalla area of South Australia was 57 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: 57 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 176 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 105 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 27 days in 2011–12 to 57 days in 2024–25 — up 111% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services, about 61 km away, at 34 days.

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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
Whyalla Hospital and Health Services	57 days	not published	45 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.

Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 43 km away97 days
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health ServicesSA · about 61 km away34 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 205 km away19 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 215 km away80 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 224 km away87 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 225 km away95 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 230 km away119 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 239 km away32 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	Whyalla Hospital and Health Services (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	27	42	51
2012–13	12	30	50
2013–14	11	34	46
2014–15	12	35	43
2015–16	15	39	42
2016–17	28	37	41
2017–18	23	40	45
2018–19	29	43	45
2019–20	40	49	48
2020–21	35	56	56
2021–22	19	64	53
2022–23	26	51	59
2023–24	25	45	46
2024–25	57	58	48

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

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