Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Royal Hobart 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: 30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 170 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.6%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 29 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
Royal Hobart Hospital	30 days	0.6%	170 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.

Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 160 km away57 days
Mersey Community HospitalTAS · about 198 km away98 days
North West Regional HospitalTAS · about 236 km away96 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 497 km away35 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. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

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	Royal Hobart Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	272	89	51
2012–13	162	71	50
2013–14	91	71	46
2014–15	54	59	43
2015–16	103	83	42
2016–17	43	33	41
2017–18	50	39	45
2018–19	103	89	45
2019–20	43	70	48
2020–21	50	82	56
2021–22	23	58	53
2022–23	34	64	59
2023–24	37	44	46
2024–25	30	46	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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