Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Innisfail 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: 87 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 19 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 153 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
Innisfail Hospital	87 days	not published	19 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	53 days	1.3%	3498 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.

Cairns HospitalQLD · about 73 km away66 days
Townsville University HospitalQLD · about 215 km away36 days
Mackay Base HospitalQLD · about 520 km away36 days
Emerald HospitalQLD · about 702 km away84 days
Mount Isa Base HospitalQLD · about 774 km away25 days
Rockhampton HospitalQLD · about 800 km away37 days
Thursday Island HospitalQLD · about 874 km away1 day
Gladstone HospitalQLD · about 889 km away82 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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	Innisfail Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	37	44	51
2012–13	21	46	50
2013–14	28	42	46
2014–15	33	38	43
2015–16	21	43	42
2016–17	42	45	41
2017–18	28	51	45
2018–19	56	52	45
2019–20	42	58	48
2020–21	42	52	56
2021–22	28	51	53
2022–23	45	48	59
2023–24	81	47	46
2024–25	87	53	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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