Keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) waiting time at Griffith Base Hospital
Half of patients at Griffith Base Hospital waited 53 days or less for keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Laparoscopy". This public hospital is in the Griffith area of New South Wales.
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
- 53 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 39 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 69 days in 2016–17 to 53 days in 2024–25 — down 23% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 302 km away, at 28 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Laparoscopy" 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Griffith Base Hospital | 53 days | not published | 39 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 70 days | 6.0% | 2149 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 53 days | 2.5% | 3279 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 69 days | 5.4% | 9403 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.
Wagga Wagga Hospital, NSW · about 152 km away: 70 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], VIC · about 219 km away: 63 days
Northeast Health Wangaratta, VIC · about 232 km away: 58 days
Orange Health Service, NSW · about 302 km away: 28 days
Queanbeyan Hospital, NSW · about 314 km away: 46 days
The Bendigo Hospital, VIC · about 317 km away: 84 days
Dubbo Hospital, NSW · about 330 km away: 94 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping], VIC · about 386 km away: 40 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Griffith Base Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Griffith Base Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 69 | 50 | 47 |
| 2017–18 | 45 | 54 | 51 |
| 2018–19 | 34 | 58 | 57 |
| 2019–20 | 43 | 66 | 64 |
| 2020–21 | 54 | 79 | 79 |
| 2021–22 | 49 | 69 | 78 |
| 2022–23 | 34 | 74 | 82 |
| 2023–24 | 48 | 59 | 69 |
| 2024–25 | 53 | 70 | 69 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Griffith Base Hospital · Keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) across Australia · Keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales