Surgery Waits

Laparoscopy waiting time at Griffith Base Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Griffith area of New South Wales was 53 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
53 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
39 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 69 days in 2016–17 to 53 days in 2024–25 — down 23% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 302 km away, at 28 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Laparoscopy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Griffith Base Hospital53 daysnot published39 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)70 days6.0%2149 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)53 days2.5%3279 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)69 days5.4%9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for laparoscopy by financial year at Griffith Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Griffith Base Hospital 53NSW 70Australia 69
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGriffith Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17695047
2017–18455451
2018–19345857
2019–20436664
2020–21547979
2021–22496978
2022–23347482
2023–24485969
2024–25537069

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

All surgery at Griffith Base Hospital · Laparoscopy across Australia · Laparoscopy in New South Wales