Gallbladder removal waiting time at Blacktown Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Blacktown area of New South Wales was 63 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: 63 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 126 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.8%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 119 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 64 days in 2011–12 to 63 days in 2024–25 — down 2% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Children's Hospital at Westmead, about 7 km away, at 31 days. Here, 0.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.3%.

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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
Blacktown Hospital	63 days	0.8%	126 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	58 days	3.2%	6357 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.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 7 km away63 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 7 km away31 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 8 km away75 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 9 km away74 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 14 km away53 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 16 km away41 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 16 km away105 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 18 km away34 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	Blacktown Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	64	60	51
2012–13	54	56	50
2013–14	47	55	46
2014–15	49	56	43
2015–16	44	56	42
2016–17	51	51	41
2017–18	65	54	45
2018–19	43	55	45
2019–20	44	55	48
2020–21	53	63	56
2021–22	83	60	53
2022–23	89	72	59
2023–24	66	62	46
2024–25	63	58	48

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

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