Gallbladder removal waiting time at Fiona Stanley Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Murdoch area of Western Australia was 53 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: 53 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 59 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 5.1%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 89 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 57 days in 2014–15 to 53 days in 2024–25 — down 7% — while the national median rose from 43 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Perth Children's Hospital, about 12 km away, at 38 days. Here, 5.1% 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
Fiona Stanley Hospital	53 days	5.1%	59 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	58 days	3.1%	1780 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.

Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 9 km away74 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 10 km away98 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 12 km away38 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away55 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 13 km away115 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 18 km away38 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 21 km away54 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 25 km away133 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Fiona Stanley Hospital
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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	Fiona Stanley Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	28	51
2012–13	not reported for this period	29	50
2013–14	not reported for this period	27	46
2014–15	57	32	43
2015–16	19	29	42
2016–17	34	35	41
2017–18	33	40	45
2018–19	53	42	45
2019–20	24	46	48
2020–21	28	53	56
2021–22	60	53	53
2022–23	44	62	59
2023–24	34	51	46
2024–25	53	58	48

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

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