Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Cessnock 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: 122 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 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 171 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
Cessnock Hospital	122 days	not published	25 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.

Maitland HospitalNSW · about 22 km away84 days
Singleton HospitalNSW · about 33 km away19 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 34 km away61 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 36 km away39 days
Calvary Mater NewcastleNSW · about 36 km away87 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 50 km away72 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 66 km away81 days
Muswellbrook HospitalNSW · about 75 km away53 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	Cessnock Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	61	60	51
2012–13	71	56	50
2013–14	66	55	46
2014–15	44	56	43
2015–16	48	56	42
2016–17	56	51	41
2017–18	75	54	45
2018–19	70	55	45
2019–20	92	55	48
2020–21	137	63	56
2021–22	63	60	53
2022–23	67	72	59
2023–24	61	62	46
2024–25	122	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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