Gallbladder removal waiting time at Bentley Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the St James area of Western Australia, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 98 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 44 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 165 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 34 days in 2011–12 to 98 days in 2024–25 — up 188% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fiona Stanley Hospital, about 10 km away, at 53 days.

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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
Bentley Health Service	98 days	not published	44 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 8 km away115 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 10 km away53 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 11 km away38 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 11 km away55 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 14 km away133 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 17 km away38 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 18 km away54 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 18 km away74 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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	Bentley Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	34	28	51
2012–13	38	29	50
2013–14	38	27	46
2014–15	45	32	43
2015–16	23	29	42
2016–17	34	35	41
2017–18	41	40	45
2018–19	32	42	45
2019–20	38	46	48
2020–21	32	53	56
2021–22	42	53	53
2022–23	48	62	59
2023–24	48	51	46
2024–25	98	58	48

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

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