Surgery Waits

Gallbladder removal waiting time at Robina Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Robina area of Queensland was 54 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
54 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
138 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 93 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 64 days in 2012–13 to 54 days in 2024–25 — down 16% — while the national median fell from 50 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gold Coast University Hospital, about 13 km away, at 51 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.3%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" 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 Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Robina Hospital54 days0.0%138 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)58 days3.2%6357 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)53 days1.3%3498 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)48 days2.3%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 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 cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) by financial year at Robina Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0193856752011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Robina Hospital 54QLD 53Australia 48
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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 periodRobina Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period4451
2012–13644650
2013–14354246
2014–15303843
2015–16474342
2016–17394541
2017–18485145
2018–19685245
2019–20635848
2020–21385256
2021–22545153
2022–23594859
2023–24384746
2024–25545348

Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery

These are not figures for cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic). Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Robina.

Patients treated
525 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
100.0%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
273 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
0 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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