Laparoscopy waiting time at St John of God Midland Public Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Midland area of Western Australia was 217 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: 217 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 36 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 144 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 53 days in 2016–17 to 217 days in 2024–25 — up 309% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, about 15 km away, at 6 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
St John of God Midland Public Hospital	217 days	not published	36 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 15 km away6 days
King Edward Memorial HospitalWA · about 19 km away51 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 19 km away112 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 20 km away54 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 20 km away12 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 25 km away10 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away83 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 28 km away33 days

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

How the wait has changed

St John of God Midland Public Hospital
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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 period	St John of God Midland Public Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	53	34	47
2017–18	80	41	51
2018–19	77	47	57
2019–20	107	56	64
2020–21	200	62	79
2021–22	312	57	78
2022–23	265	47	82
2023–24	247	56	69
2024–25	217	55	69

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

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