Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Northern Beaches 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: 57 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 72 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 105 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
Northern Beaches Hospital	57 days	0.0%	72 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.

Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 9 km away75 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 12 km away56 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 14 km away41 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 14 km away27 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 16 km away40 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away34 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 19 km away43 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 19 km away40 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	Northern Beaches Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	60	51
2012–13	not reported for this period	56	50
2013–14	not reported for this period	55	46
2014–15	not reported for this period	56	43
2015–16	not reported for this period	56	42
2016–17	not reported for this period	51	41
2017–18	not reported for this period	54	45
2018–19	31	55	45
2019–20	20	55	48
2020–21	31	63	56
2021–22	30	60	53
2022–23	43	72	59
2023–24	50	62	46
2024–25	57	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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