Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Gosford Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 81 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 143 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.5%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 146 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Gosford Hospital	81 days	3.5%	143 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	58 days	3.2%	6357 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.

Wyong HospitalNSW · about 22 km away72 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 38 km away56 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 38 km away57 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 47 km away75 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 48 km away41 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 52 km away34 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 52 km away27 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 52 km away39 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	Gosford Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	81	60	51
2012–13	79	56	50
2013–14	75	55	46
2014–15	66	56	43
2015–16	56	56	42
2016–17	60	51	41
2017–18	63	54	45
2018–19	77	55	45
2019–20	54	55	48
2020–21	86	63	56
2021–22	111	60	53
2022–23	120	72	59
2023–24	86	62	46
2024–25	81	58	48

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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