Keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
Half of patients at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus waited 6 days or less for keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Laparoscopy". This public hospital is in the Perth area of Western Australia.
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
- 6 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 17 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 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 13 days in 2017–18 to 6 days in 2024–25 — down 54% — while the national median rose from 51 days to 69 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus | 6 days | not published | 17 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 55 days | 5.4% | 797 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 69 days | 5.4% | 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.
King Edward Memorial Hospital, WA · about 5 km away: 51 days
Perth Children's Hospital, WA · about 5 km away: 54 days
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA · about 5 km away: 12 days
Osborne Park Hospital, WA · about 10 km away: 112 days
Fiona Stanley Hospital, WA · about 13 km away: 10 days
St John of God Midland Public Hospital, WA · about 15 km away: 217 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, WA · about 16 km away: 77 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, WA · about 25 km away: 83 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 34 | 47 |
| 2017–18 | 13 | 41 | 51 |
| 2018–19 | 7 | 47 | 57 |
| 2019–20 | 10 | 56 | 64 |
| 2020–21 | 18 | 62 | 79 |
| 2021–22 | 22 | 57 | 78 |
| 2022–23 | 6 | 47 | 82 |
| 2023–24 | 13 | 56 | 69 |
| 2024–25 | 6 | 55 | 69 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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