Gallbladder removal waiting time at Joondalup Health Campus (Public)

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Joondalup area of Western Australia was 23 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: 23 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 97 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 14 days in 2011–12 to 23 days in 2024–25 — up 64% — 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, 0.0% 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
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)	23 days	0.0%	97 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.

Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 17 km away54 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 26 km away115 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 26 km away55 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 26 km away38 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 28 km away133 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 33 km away98 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 36 km away74 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 38 km away53 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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	Joondalup Health Campus (Public) (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	14	28	51
2012–13	16	29	50
2013–14	11	27	46
2014–15	15	32	43
2015–16	16	29	42
2016–17	17	35	41
2017–18	13	40	45
2018–19	16	42	45
2019–20	16	46	48
2020–21	21	53	56
2021–22	30	53	53
2022–23	22	62	59
2023–24	20	51	46
2024–25	23	58	48

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

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