Gallbladder removal waiting time at The Bendigo Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Bendigo 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: 43 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 62 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 52 days in 2011–12 to 43 days in 2024–25 — down 17% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton], about 109 km away, at 25 days. Here, 0.6% 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
The Bendigo Hospital	43 days	0.6%	170 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.

Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 98 km away45 days
Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh]VIC · about 104 km away91 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 109 km away25 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 120 km away19 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 122 km away25 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 128 km away50 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 130 km away129 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 131 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	The Bendigo Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	52	54	51
2012–13	57	60	50
2013–14	54	47	46
2014–15	63	36	43
2015–16	74	31	42
2016–17	68	31	41
2017–18	57	35	45
2018–19	22	30	45
2019–20	33	29	48
2020–21	28	45	56
2021–22	46	37	53
2022–23	42	48	59
2023–24	57	27	46
2024–25	43	28	48

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

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