Surgery Waits

Gallbladder removal waiting time at Queanbeyan Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Queanbeyan area of New South Wales was 57 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
57 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
38 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 105 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2011–12 (57 days) — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Goulburn Base Hospital, about 80 km away, at 52 days.

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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
Queanbeyan Hospital57 daysnot published38 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 Queanbeyan Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Queanbeyan Hospital 57NSW 58Australia 48
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Median wait in days for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodQueanbeyan Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12576051
2012–13645650
2013–14635546
2014–15495643
2015–16495642
2016–17515141
2017–18455445
2018–19635545
2019–20555548
2020–21486356
2021–22736053
2022–23857259
2023–24676246
2024–25575848

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

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