Gallbladder removal waiting time at North West Regional Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Park Grove 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: 96 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 76 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.6%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 162 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 43 days in 2011–12 to 96 days in 2024–25 — up 123% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Launceston General Hospital, about 114 km away, at 57 days. Here, 2.6% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.3%.

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
North West Regional Hospital	96 days	2.6%	76 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.

Mersey Community HospitalTAS · about 50 km away98 days
Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 114 km away57 days
Royal Hobart HospitalTAS · about 236 km away30 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 272 km away35 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 319 km away27 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 320 km away23 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 328 km away29 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 329 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	North West Regional Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	43	89	51
2012–13	38	71	50
2013–14	58	71	46
2014–15	49	59	43
2015–16	52	83	42
2016–17	40	33	41
2017–18	38	39	45
2018–19	85	89	45
2019–20	116	70	48
2020–21	129	82	56
2021–22	140	58	53
2022–23	104	64	59
2023–24	70	44	46
2024–25	96	46	48

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

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