Gallbladder removal waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Crawley 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: 38 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 51 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 65 days in 2019–20 to 38 days in 2024–25 — down 42% — while the national median stayed at 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 26 km away, at 23 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
Perth Children's Hospital	38 days	not published	12 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 0 km away55 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away115 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 9 km away54 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 11 km away98 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away53 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away74 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 20 km away133 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away23 days

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

How the wait has changed

Perth Children's Hospital
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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	Perth Children's Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	28	51
2012–13	not reported for this period	29	50
2013–14	not reported for this period	27	46
2014–15	not reported for this period	32	43
2015–16	not reported for this period	29	42
2016–17	not reported for this period	35	41
2017–18	not published	40	45
2018–19	not published	42	45
2019–20	65	46	48
2020–21	65	53	56
2021–22	not published	53	53
2022–23	not published	62	59
2023–24	40	51	46
2024–25	38	58	48

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

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