Surgery Waits

Laparoscopy waiting time at Orange Health Service

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Spring Creek area of New South Wales was 28 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
28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
27 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 27 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 52 days in 2016–17 to 28 days in 2024–25 — down 46% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Liverpool Hospital, about 183 km away, at 9 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Orange Health Service28 daysnot published27 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)70 days6.0%2149 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)69 days5.4%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for laparoscopy by financial year at Orange Health Service, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Orange Health Service 28NSW 70Australia 69
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodOrange Health Service (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17525047
2017–18755451
2018–19585857
2019–20946664
2020–211207979
2021–22556978
2022–23787482
2023–24835969
2024–25287069

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

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