Surgery Waits

Gallbladder removal waiting time at Millicent and District Hospital and Health Service

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Millicent area of South Australia was 33 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
33 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 176 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 37 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 46 days in 2011–12 to 33 days in 2024–25 — down 28% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service, about 44 km away, at 25 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" 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 Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Millicent and District Hospital and Health Service33 daysnot published15 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)58 days2.9%1396 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)28 days1.2%4488 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)48 days2.3%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 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 cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) by financial year at Millicent and District Hospital and Health Service, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0193856752011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Millicent and District Hospital and Health Service 33SA 58Australia 48
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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 periodMillicent and District Hospital and Health Service (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12464251
2012–13343050
2013–14not published3446
2014–15not published3543
2015–16not reported for this period3942
2016–17not reported for this period3741
2017–18not reported for this period4045
2018–19not reported for this period4345
2019–20not published4948
2020–21not published5656
2021–22not published6453
2022–23not published5159
2023–24not published4546
2024–25335848

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

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