Gallbladder removal waiting time at Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Mount Nasura area of Western Australia was 38 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 38 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 198 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.5%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 51 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 19 days in 2011–12 to 38 days in 2024–25 — up 100% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.3%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital	38 days	0.5%	198 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 17 km away98 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 18 km away53 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 25 km away115 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 26 km away38 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 27 km away133 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 27 km away55 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 27 km away74 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 29 km away94 days

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

How the wait has changed

Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial 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	Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	19	28	51
2012–13	22	29	50
2013–14	15	27	46
2014–15	26	32	43
2015–16	24	29	42
2016–17	20	35	41
2017–18	23	40	45
2018–19	29	42	45
2019–20	22	46	48
2020–21	30	53	56
2021–22	36	53	53
2022–23	44	62	59
2023–24	36	51	46
2024–25	38	58	48

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

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