Lithotripsy waiting time at Noarlunga Hospital

The median wait for lithotripsy at this public hospital in the Noarlunga Centre area of South Australia was 24 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: 24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 49 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 49 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 15 km away, at 22 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Lithotripsy" 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 Lithotripsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Noarlunga Hospital	24 days	not published	49 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.0%	150 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	26 days	0.4%	675 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.8%	2881 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 15 km away22 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 26 km away51 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 29 km away50 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 549 km away22 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 550 km away176 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 632 km away151 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 638 km away62 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 646 km away33 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 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

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Lithotripsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Noarlunga Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	not published	34
2017–18	not reported for this period	not published	29
2018–19	not reported for this period	not published	36
2019–20	not reported for this period	35	28
2020–21	not published	29	34
2021–22	not reported for this period	26	33
2022–23	not published	not published	30
2023–24	not reported for this period	not published	28
2024–25	24	28	28

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

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