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Gallbladder removal waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for gallbladder removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 58 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 48 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

66 public hospitals in New South Wales reported gallbladder removal in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

4 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 48 days marks the national median.

Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Singleton Hospital 19 days not published 27 surgeries
2 Wollongong Hospital 20 days 1.0% 105 surgeries
3 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 27 days 0.0% 111 surgeries
4 The Children's Hospital at Westmead 31 days not published 24 surgeries
5 Concord Repatriation Hospital 34 days 0.0% 211 surgeries
6 Bowral Hospital 35 days 0.0% 70 surgeries
7 Belmont Hospital 39 days 0.0% 195 surgeries
8 Grafton Base Hospital 40 days 0.0% 85 surgeries
8 Prince of Wales Hospital 40 days 0.0% 125 surgeries
8 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 40 days 0.0% 198 surgeries
11 Ryde Hospital 41 days 0.0% 101 surgeries
12 Hawkesbury Hospital 42 days 0.0% 109 surgeries
12 South East Regional Hospital 42 days 0.0% 59 surgeries
14 Shellharbour Hospital 43 days 0.0% 156 surgeries
14 Sydney Children's Hospital 43 days not published 10 surgeries
16 Mudgee Health Service 44 days not published 21 surgeries
16 Wagga Wagga Hospital 44 days 11.0% 136 surgeries
18 Cowra Health Service 46 days not published 28 surgeries
19 Lismore Base Hospital 48 days 7.5% 106 surgeries
19 Tamworth Hospital 48 days 0.0% 134 surgeries
19 Tweed Valley Hospital 48 days 0.0% 101 surgeries
22 Broken Hill Hospital 50 days not published 30 surgeries
23 Goulburn Base Hospital 52 days 0.0% 60 surgeries
24 Auburn Hospital 53 days 0.0% 187 surgeries
24 Griffith Base Hospital 53 days not published 48 surgeries
24 Muswellbrook Hospital 53 days not published 11 surgeries
27 Moruya Hospital 54 days not published 32 surgeries
28 Armidale Hospital 55 days 0.0% 55 surgeries
29 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 56 days 0.0% 83 surgeries
30 Northern Beaches Hospital 57 days 0.0% 72 surgeries
30 Queanbeyan Hospital 57 days not published 38 surgeries
32 Bathurst Base Hospital 59 days 0.0% 76 surgeries
33 Shoalhaven Hospital 60 days 4.1% 148 surgeries
34 Blue Mountains Hospital 61 days 0.0% 118 surgeries
34 John Hunter Hospital 61 days 7.6% 66 surgeries
36 Lithgow Hospital 62 days not published 11 surgeries
37 Blacktown Hospital 63 days 0.8% 126 surgeries
37 Westmead Hospital 63 days 1.6% 186 surgeries
39 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 65 days 0.0% 235 surgeries
40 Orange Health Service 66 days 0.0% 92 surgeries
41 Nepean Hospital 70 days 3.7% 136 surgeries
42 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 71 days 2.2% 135 surgeries
42 Sutherland Hospital 71 days 0.0% 132 surgeries
44 Wyong Hospital 72 days 5.3% 132 surgeries
45 Fairfield Hospital 74 days 1.2% 165 surgeries
46 Manning Hospital 75 days 10.3% 78 surgeries
46 Mount Druitt Hospital 75 days 0.0% 224 surgeries
46 Royal North Shore Hospital 75 days 1.6% 62 surgeries
46 St George Hospital NSW 75 days 6.0% 183 surgeries
50 Ballina District Hospital 76 days not published 15 surgeries
51 Macksville District Hospital 80 days not published 33 surgeries
52 Gosford Hospital 81 days 3.5% 143 surgeries
53 Canterbury Hospital 83 days 0.9% 115 surgeries
54 Maitland Hospital 84 days 16.4% 116 surgeries
55 Dubbo Hospital 85 days 8.6% 81 surgeries
56 Calvary Mater Newcastle 87 days 1.0% 97 surgeries
57 Lachlan Health Service - Parkes 90 days not published 19 surgeries
58 Coffs Harbour Hospital 99 days 15.3% 98 surgeries
59 Liverpool Hospital 105 days 19.8% 217 surgeries
60 Cessnock Hospital 122 days not published 25 surgeries
61 Young Hospital 191 days not published 11 surgeries
62 Campbelltown Hospital 219 days 8.2% 331 surgeries
unranked Casino and District Memorial Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Cooma Hospital and Health Service not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Kempsey District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Moree Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Gosford · near Liverpool · near Penrith · near Randwick · near St Leonards · near Westmead · near Wollongong.

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The median wait for gallbladder removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 58 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Gallbladder removal waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/gallbladder-removal/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/gallbladder-removal/nsw/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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