Gallbladder removal waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Bellfield 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: 32 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 147 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 32 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 39 days in 2023–24 to 32 days in 2024–25 — down 18% — while the national median rose from 46 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], about 1 km away, at 20 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.3%.

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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
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]	32 days	0.0%	147 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.

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 1 km away20 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 8 km away27 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 9 km away27 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 9 km away50 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 10 km away129 days
The AlfredVIC · about 12 km away36 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away19 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 13 km away24 days

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

How the wait has changed

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]
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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	Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] (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	39	27	46
2024–25	32	28	48

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

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