Gallbladder removal waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Perth 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: 115 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 133 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 13.5%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 169 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 126 days in 2011–12 to 115 days in 2024–25 — down 9% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Perth Children's Hospital, about 5 km away, at 38 days. Here, 13.5% 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
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	115 days	13.5%	133 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.

Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 5 km away38 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 5 km away55 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 8 km away98 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away54 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 13 km away53 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 15 km away133 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away74 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 25 km away38 days

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

How the wait has changed

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
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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	Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	126	28	51
2012–13	70	29	50
2013–14	40	27	46
2014–15	51	32	43
2015–16	36	29	42
2016–17	26	35	41
2017–18	31	40	45
2018–19	43	42	45
2019–20	36	46	48
2020–21	57	53	56
2021–22	60	53	53
2022–23	63	62	59
2023–24	89	51	46
2024–25	115	58	48

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

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