Surgery Waits

Gallbladder removal waiting time at Nepean Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 70 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
70 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
136 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
3.7%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 128 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 81 days in 2011–12 to 70 days in 2024–25 — down 14% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Blacktown Hospital, about 19 km away, at 63 days. Here, 3.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.3%.

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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
Nepean Hospital70 days3.7%136 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 Nepean Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays038751131502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Nepean Hospital 70NSW 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 periodNepean Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12816051
2012–13745650
2013–14895546
2014–15915643
2015–16665642
2016–17645141
2017–18805445
2018–19775545
2019–20655548
2020–21906356
2021–22696053
2022–231437259
2023–241216246
2024–25705848

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

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