Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Sir Charles Gairdner 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: 55 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 142 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.7%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 97 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
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	55 days	0.7%	142 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 0 km away38 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
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away74 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away53 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

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
WA
Australia

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	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	50	28	51
2012–13	34	29	50
2013–14	29	27	46
2014–15	35	32	43
2015–16	30	29	42
2016–17	28	35	41
2017–18	29	40	45
2018–19	43	42	45
2019–20	54	46	48
2020–21	52	53	56
2021–22	77	53	53
2022–23	84	62	59
2023–24	42	51	46
2024–25	55	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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