Gallbladder removal waiting time at Sunshine Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Sunshine North area of Victoria, 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: 25 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 147 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 17 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 66 days in 2011–12 to 25 days in 2024–25 — down 62% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. 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
Sunshine Hospital	25 days	0.0%	147 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.

Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 7 km away50 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 12 km away129 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 13 km away50 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 13 km away48 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 15 km away27 days
The AlfredVIC · about 17 km away36 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 18 km away71 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 20 km away32 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	Sunshine Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	66	54	51
2012–13	57	60	50
2013–14	80	47	46
2014–15	57	36	43
2015–16	28	31	42
2016–17	20	31	41
2017–18	28	35	45
2018–19	24	30	45
2019–20	20	29	48
2020–21	64	45	56
2021–22	13	37	53
2022–23	21	48	59
2023–24	21	27	46
2024–25	25	28	48

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

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