Surgery Waits

Gallbladder removal waiting time at Griffith Base Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Griffith area of New South Wales was 53 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
53 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
48 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 176 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 89 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 49 days in 2011–12 to 53 days in 2024–25 — up 8% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wagga Wagga Hospital, about 152 km away, at 44 days.

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
Griffith Base Hospital53 daysnot published48 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)58 days3.2%6357 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)28 days1.2%4488 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.

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

Median wait for cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) by financial year at Griffith Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0193856752011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Griffith Base Hospital 53NSW 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 periodGriffith Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12496051
2012–13335650
2013–14285546
2014–15565643
2015–16305642
2016–17465141
2017–18615445
2018–19225545
2019–20365548
2020–21426356
2021–22526053
2022–23417259
2023–24356246
2024–25535848

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

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