Laparoscopy waiting time at Ballina District Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Laparoscopy 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: 76 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 17 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 77 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 Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Ballina District Hospital	76 days	not published	17 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	70 days	6.0%	2149 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	84 days	7.1%	2015 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	69 days	5.4%	9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.

Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 27 km away63 days
Casino and District Memorial HospitalNSW · about 51 km away27 days
Tweed Valley HospitalNSW · about 76 km away84 days
Robina HospitalQLD · about 90 km away90 days
Gold Coast University HospitalQLD · about 102 km away25 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 109 km away73 days
Logan HospitalQLD · about 139 km away125 days
Redland HospitalQLD · about 150 km away97 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. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Ballina District Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	54	50	47
2017–18	70	54	51
2018–19	45	58	57
2019–20	63	66	64
2020–21	46	79	79
2021–22	27	69	78
2022–23	22	74	82
2023–24	63	59	69
2024–25	76	70	69

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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