Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Macksville District 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: 80 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 33 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 144 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
Macksville District Hospital	80 days	not published	33 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.

Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 47 km away99 days
Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 82 km away71 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 116 km away40 days
Armidale HospitalNSW · about 123 km away55 days
Manning HospitalNSW · about 140 km away75 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 195 km away48 days
Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 215 km away48 days
Ballina District HospitalNSW · about 215 km away76 days

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

How the wait has changed

Macksville District Hospital
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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	Macksville District Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not published	60	51
2012–13	56	56	50
2013–14	not published	55	46
2014–15	71	56	43
2015–16	56	56	42
2016–17	85	51	41
2017–18	259	54	45
2018–19	61	55	45
2019–20	66	55	48
2020–21	145	63	56
2021–22	187	60	53
2022–23	193	72	59
2023–24	120	62	46
2024–25	80	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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