Gallbladder removal waiting time at Ballina District Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the South Ballina area of New South Wales, 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: 76 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 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 141 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 27 days in 2011–12 to 76 days in 2024–25 — up 181% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lismore Base Hospital, about 27 km away, at 48 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Ballina District Hospital	76 days	not published	15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	58 days	3.2%	6357 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.

Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 27 km away48 days
Tweed Valley HospitalNSW · about 76 km away48 days
Robina HospitalQLD · about 90 km away54 days
Gold Coast University HospitalQLD · about 102 km away51 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 109 km away40 days
Logan HospitalQLD · about 139 km away56 days
Redland HospitalQLD · about 150 km away42 days
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee HospitalQLD · about 154 km away55 days

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Ballina District Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	27	60	51
2012–13	42	56	50
2013–14	39	55	46
2014–15	62	56	43
2015–16	31	56	42
2016–17	66	51	41
2017–18	56	54	45
2018–19	46	55	45
2019–20	67	55	48
2020–21	135	63	56
2021–22	74	60	53
2022–23	103	72	59
2023–24	51	62	46
2024–25	76	58	48

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

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