Gallbladder removal waiting time at Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Bacchus Marsh area of Victoria, 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: 91 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 21 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 158 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Werribee Mercy Hospital, about 33 km away, at 71 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh]	91 days	not published	21 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	28 days	1.2%	4488 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.

Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 33 km away71 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 35 km away25 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 42 km away50 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 45 km away48 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 47 km away129 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 48 km away50 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 50 km away27 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 51 km away19 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	Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	54	51
2012–13	not reported for this period	60	50
2013–14	not reported for this period	47	46
2014–15	not reported for this period	36	43
2015–16	not reported for this period	31	42
2016–17	not reported for this period	31	41
2017–18	not reported for this period	35	45
2018–19	not reported for this period	30	45
2019–20	not reported for this period	29	48
2020–21	not reported for this period	45	56
2021–22	not reported for this period	37	53
2022–23	not reported for this period	48	59
2023–24	not reported for this period	27	46
2024–25	91	28	48

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

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