Gallbladder removal waiting time at The Northern Hospital [Epping]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Lalor 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: 19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 445 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 6 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 87 days in 2011–12 to 19 days in 2024–25 — down 78% — 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
The Northern Hospital [Epping]	19 days	0.0%	445 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.

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 12 km away32 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away20 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 17 km away129 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 17 km away50 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 17 km away27 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 19 km away50 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 20 km away27 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 21 km away25 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 Northern Hospital [Epping] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	87	54	51
2012–13	117	60	50
2013–14	78	47	46
2014–15	85	36	43
2015–16	64	31	42
2016–17	28	31	41
2017–18	26	35	45
2018–19	20	30	45
2019–20	22	29	48
2020–21	23	45	56
2021–22	37	37	53
2022–23	30	48	59
2023–24	13	27	46
2024–25	19	28	48

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

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