Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Cairns 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: 66 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 160 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.6%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 124 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
Cairns Hospital	66 days	0.6%	160 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.

Innisfail HospitalQLD · about 73 km away87 days
Townsville University HospitalQLD · about 288 km away36 days
Mackay Base HospitalQLD · about 590 km away36 days
Emerald HospitalQLD · about 775 km away84 days
Mount Isa Base HospitalQLD · about 785 km away25 days
Thursday Island HospitalQLD · about 801 km away1 day
Rockhampton HospitalQLD · about 872 km away37 days
Gladstone HospitalQLD · about 960 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	Cairns Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	55	44	51
2012–13	64	46	50
2013–14	57	42	46
2014–15	13	38	43
2015–16	26	43	42
2016–17	46	45	41
2017–18	29	51	45
2018–19	49	52	45
2019–20	47	58	48
2020–21	76	52	56
2021–22	77	51	53
2022–23	80	48	59
2023–24	74	47	46
2024–25	66	53	48

Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery

These are not figures for cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic). Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Cairns.

Patients treated: 425 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time: 94.6%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter: 617 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended: 34 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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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