Gallbladder removal waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and 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 Fremantle 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: 74 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 178 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.1%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 135 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 72 days in 2011–12 to 74 days in 2024–25 — up 3% — 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 9 km away, at 53 days. Here, 1.1% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.3%.

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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
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service	74 days	1.1%	178 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.

Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 9 km away53 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 12 km away38 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away55 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 16 km away115 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 18 km away98 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 20 km away54 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 26 km away94 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away38 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	Fremantle Hospital and Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	72	28	51
2012–13	84	29	50
2013–14	87	27	46
2014–15	55	32	43
2015–16	31	29	42
2016–17	39	35	41
2017–18	67	40	45
2018–19	78	42	45
2019–20	89	46	48
2020–21	59	53	56
2021–22	43	53	53
2022–23	78	62	59
2023–24	35	51	46
2024–25	74	58	48

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

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