Surgery Waits

Gallbladder removal waiting time at Hedland Health Campus

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the South Hedland area of Western Australia was 23 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
23 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
20 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 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 18 days in 2011–12 to 23 days in 2024–25 — up 28% — 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.

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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
Hedland Health Campus23 daysnot published20 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)58 days3.1%1780 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 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) by financial year at Hedland Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0193856752011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Hedland Health Campus 23WA 58Australia 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 periodHedland Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12182851
2012–13392950
2013–14232746
2014–15423243
2015–16602942
2016–17313541
2017–18754045
2018–19454245
2019–20674648
2020–21675356
2021–22565353
2022–23626259
2023–24325146
2024–25235848

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

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