Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Muswellbrook 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: 53 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 89 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
Muswellbrook Hospital	53 days	not published	11 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.

Singleton HospitalNSW · about 43 km away19 days
Cessnock HospitalNSW · about 75 km away122 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 79 km away84 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 104 km away61 days
Calvary Mater NewcastleNSW · about 104 km away87 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 110 km away39 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 123 km away72 days
Mudgee Health ServiceNSW · about 129 km away44 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	Muswellbrook Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	28	60	51
2012–13	35	56	50
2013–14	not published	55	46
2014–15	38	56	43
2015–16	21	56	42
2016–17	35	51	41
2017–18	not published	54	45
2018–19	not published	55	45
2019–20	not published	55	48
2020–21	not published	63	56
2021–22	not published	60	53
2022–23	not published	72	59
2023–24	not published	62	46
2024–25	53	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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