Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Kununurra Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) at this public hospital, 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: 90 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 156 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Kununurra Hospital	90 days	not published	12 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)	42 days	0.0%	118 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.

Palmerston Regional HospitalNT · about 441 km away49 days
Royal Darwin HospitalNT · about 445 km away26 days
Broome HospitalWA · about 733 km away82 days
Gove HospitalNT · about 955 km away127 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

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	Kununurra Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	63	28	51
2012–13	39	29	50
2013–14	70	27	46
2014–15	36	32	43
2015–16	60	29	42
2016–17	not published	35	41
2017–18	72	40	45
2018–19	54	42	45
2019–20	not published	46	48
2020–21	26	53	56
2021–22	not published	53	53
2022–23	45	62	59
2023–24	not published	51	46
2024–25	90	58	48

What is not here

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

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