Surgery Waits

Gallbladder removal waiting time at Bentley Health Service

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the St James area of Western Australia was 98 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
98 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
44 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 165 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 34 days in 2011–12 to 98 days in 2024–25 — up 188% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fiona Stanley Hospital, about 10 km away, at 53 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
Bentley Health Service98 daysnot published44 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)58 days3.1%1780 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)48 days2.3%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) by financial year at Bentley Health Service, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays02550751002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Bentley Health Service 98WA 58Australia 48
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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 periodBentley Health Service (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12342851
2012–13382950
2013–14382746
2014–15453243
2015–16232942
2016–17343541
2017–18414045
2018–19324245
2019–20384648
2020–21325356
2021–22425353
2022–23486259
2023–24485146
2024–25985848

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

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