Gallbladder removal waiting time at Cowra Health Service

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Cowra area of New South Wales was 46 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 46 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 28 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 68 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 48 days in 2011–12 to 46 days in 2024–25 — down 4% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mudgee Health Service, about 160 km away, at 44 days.

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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
Cowra Health Service	46 days	not published	28 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.

Young HospitalNSW · about 66 km away191 days
Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 68 km away66 days
Lachlan Health Service - ParkesNSW · about 90 km away90 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 94 km away59 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 138 km away62 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 138 km away52 days
Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 151 km away61 days
Mudgee Health ServiceNSW · about 160 km away44 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	Cowra Health Service (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	48	60	51
2012–13	69	56	50
2013–14	76	55	46
2014–15	73	56	43
2015–16	not published	56	42
2016–17	68	51	41
2017–18	not published	54	45
2018–19	61	55	45
2019–20	not published	55	48
2020–21	77	63	56
2021–22	not published	60	53
2022–23	not published	72	59
2023–24	43	62	46
2024–25	46	58	48

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

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