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Gallbladder removal waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for gallbladder removal in Western Australia public hospitals was 58 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 48 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

24 public hospitals in Western Australia reported gallbladder removal in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

1 hospital has no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 48 days marks the national median.

Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) in Western Australia public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Hedland Health Campus 23 days not published 20 surgeries
1 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 23 days 0.0% 97 surgeries
3 Narrogin Hospital 24 days not published 10 surgeries
4 Peel Health Campus 35 days 0.0% 118 surgeries
5 Kalgoorlie Health Campus 36 days 0.0% 55 surgeries
6 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 38 days 0.5% 198 surgeries
6 Perth Children's Hospital 38 days not published 12 surgeries
8 Busselton Health Campus 47 days 0.0% 51 surgeries
9 Bunbury Hospital 50 days 2.2% 90 surgeries
10 Fiona Stanley Hospital 53 days 5.1% 59 surgeries
11 Albany Hospital 54 days 2.1% 95 surgeries
11 Osborne Park Hospital 54 days 4.6% 65 surgeries
13 Esperance Hospital 55 days not published 14 surgeries
13 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 55 days 0.7% 142 surgeries
15 Karratha Health Campus 56 days not published 30 surgeries
16 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 74 days 1.1% 178 surgeries
17 Broome Hospital 82 days not published 23 surgeries
18 Kununurra Hospital 90 days not published 12 surgeries
19 Rockingham General Hospital 94 days 0.6% 174 surgeries
20 Geraldton Hospital 96 days not published 49 surgeries
21 Bentley Health Service 98 days not published 44 surgeries
22 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 115 days 13.5% 133 surgeries
23 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 133 days 20.9% 91 surgeries
unranked Derby Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries

Ranked by area in Western Australia: near Murdoch · near Nedlands · near the Perth CBD.

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The median wait for gallbladder removal in Western Australia public hospitals was 58 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Gallbladder removal waiting times in Western Australia", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/gallbladder-removal/wa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/gallbladder-removal/wa/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Western Australia.