Gallbladder removal waiting time at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the North Melbourne area of Victoria was 129 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: 129 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 173 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 27 days in 2012–13 to 129 days in 2024–25 — up 378% — while the national median fell from 50 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 1 km away, at 50 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
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]	129 days	not published	12 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.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 1 km away50 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away27 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 6 km away50 days
The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away36 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 9 km away48 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 10 km away32 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 11 km away20 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 12 km away25 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	Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not published	54	51
2012–13	27	60	50
2013–14	18	47	46
2014–15	not published	36	43
2015–16	13	31	42
2016–17	not published	31	41
2017–18	not published	35	45
2018–19	not published	30	45
2019–20	not published	29	48
2020–21	not published	45	56
2021–22	not published	37	53
2022–23	not published	48	59
2023–24	not published	27	46
2024–25	129	28	48

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

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