Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Busselton Health Campus

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: 47 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 51 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 70 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
Busselton Health Campus	47 days	0.0%	51 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.

Bunbury HospitalWA · about 44 km away50 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 131 km away35 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 157 km away94 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 181 km away38 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 182 km away74 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 183 km away53 days
Narrogin HospitalWA · about 189 km away24 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 192 km away98 days

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

How the wait has changed

Busselton Health Campus
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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	Busselton Health Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	10	28	51
2012–13	43	29	50
2013–14	28	27	46
2014–15	18	32	43
2015–16	not published	29	42
2016–17	not published	35	41
2017–18	not published	40	45
2018–19	42	42	45
2019–20	42	46	48
2020–21	47	53	56
2021–22	88	53	53
2022–23	82	62	59
2023–24	56	51	46
2024–25	47	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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