Gallbladder removal waiting time at St John of God Midland Public Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for gallbladder removal — published by the source as “Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Midland 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: 133 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 91 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 20.9%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 174 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 31 days in 2015–16 to 133 days in 2024–25 — up 329% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bentley Health Service, about 14 km away, at 98 days. Here, 20.9% 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
St John of God Midland Public Hospital	133 days	20.9%	91 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.

Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 14 km away98 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 15 km away115 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 19 km away54 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 20 km away38 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 20 km away55 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 25 km away53 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away38 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 28 km away23 days

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

How the wait has changed

St John of God Midland Public 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	St John of God Midland Public 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	31	29	42
2016–17	42	35	41
2017–18	56	40	45
2018–19	78	42	45
2019–20	112	46	48
2020–21	123	53	56
2021–22	117	53	53
2022–23	187	62	59
2023–24	110	51	46
2024–25	133	58	48

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

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