Surgery Waits

Gallbladder removal waiting time at Dubbo Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Dubbo area of New South Wales was 85 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
85 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
81 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
8.6%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 152 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 81 days in 2011–12 to 85 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mudgee Health Service, about 99 km away, at 44 days. Here, 8.6% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.3%.

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
Dubbo Hospital85 days8.6%81 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)58 days3.2%6357 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) by financial year at Dubbo Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays03163941252011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Dubbo Hospital 85NSW 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 periodDubbo Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12816051
2012–13925650
2013–14715546
2014–151075643
2015–16985642
2016–17825141
2017–18485445
2018–19685545
2019–20675548
2020–21846356
2021–22576053
2022–23897259
2023–24866246
2024–25855848

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

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