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Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service surgery waiting times

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service is a public hospital in South Australia. It reported 14 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25.

Waiting times by surgery

Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed last and is never ranked.

Planned surgery at Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service, 2024–25. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Surgery Median wait Surgeries Waited more than 365 days
Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) 25 days 61 surgeries 0.0%
Myringotomy 29 days 18 surgeries not published
Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) 29 days 28 surgeries not published
Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy 41 days 34 surgeries not published
Septoplasty 44 days 10 surgeries not published
Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) 48 days 42 surgeries not published
Total hip replacement 105 days 64 surgeries 1.6%
Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) 173 days 810 surgeries 2.5%
Total knee replacement 233 days 72 surgeries 2.8%
Cystoscopy not published not published not published
Haemorrhoidectomy not published 5 surgeries not published
Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty not published not published not published
Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) not published not published not published
Varicose veins treatment not published not published not published

Urgency categories

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose.

All planned surgery at Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service by urgency category, 2024–25.
Urgency category Median wait Treated within the recommended time Surgeries
Urgent 9 days 92% 396 surgeries
Semi-urgent 38 days 86% 811 surgeries
Non-urgent 216 days 97% 996 surgeries

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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