Gallbladder removal waiting time at Dandenong Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Dandenong area of Victoria was 47 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: 47 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 91 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 70 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 79 days in 2011–12 to 47 days in 2024–25 — down 41% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 8 km away, at 35 days. Here, 0.0% 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
Dandenong Hospital	47 days	0.0%	91 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	28 days	1.2%	4488 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.

Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 8 km away35 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 12 km away34 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 14 km away48 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 17 km away24 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 18 km away9 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 20 km away27 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 21 km away22 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 21 km away29 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	Dandenong Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	79	54	51
2012–13	82	60	50
2013–14	61	47	46
2014–15	48	36	43
2015–16	35	31	42
2016–17	35	31	41
2017–18	43	35	45
2018–19	44	30	45
2019–20	83	29	48
2020–21	112	45	56
2021–22	48	37	53
2022–23	308	48	59
2023–24	42	27	46
2024–25	47	28	48

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

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