Gallbladder removal waiting time at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Camperdown area of New South Wales, 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: 40 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 198 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 55 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 26 days in 2011–12 to 40 days in 2024–25 — up 54% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], about 4 km away, at 27 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
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital	40 days	0.0%	198 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 4 km away27 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 6 km away43 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 6 km away40 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 8 km away75 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 9 km away83 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 10 km away75 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away34 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 14 km away41 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	Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	26	60	51
2012–13	19	56	50
2013–14	24	55	46
2014–15	29	56	43
2015–16	27	56	42
2016–17	15	51	41
2017–18	16	54	45
2018–19	22	55	45
2019–20	15	55	48
2020–21	26	63	56
2021–22	16	60	53
2022–23	14	72	59
2023–24	20	62	46
2024–25	40	58	48

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

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