Gallbladder removal waiting time at Mersey Community Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Latrobe area of Tasmania, 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: 98 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 165 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 31 days in 2011–12 to 98 days in 2024–25 — up 216% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is North West Regional Hospital, about 50 km away, at 96 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Mersey Community Hospital	98 days	not published	25 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	46 days	4.2%	430 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.

North West Regional HospitalTAS · about 50 km away96 days
Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 65 km away57 days
Royal Hobart HospitalTAS · about 198 km away30 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 300 km away35 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 335 km away27 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 342 km away23 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 359 km away29 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 360 km away22 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Mersey Community Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	31	89	51
2012–13	39	71	50
2013–14	44	71	46
2014–15	61	59	43
2015–16	77	83	42
2016–17	36	33	41
2017–18	34	39	45
2018–19	93	89	45
2019–20	51	70	48
2020–21	63	82	56
2021–22	42	58	53
2022–23	52	64	59
2023–24	110	44	46
2024–25	98	46	48

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

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