Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Geraldton Hospital

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: 96 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 49 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 162 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
Geraldton Hospital	96 days	not published	49 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.

Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 347 km away23 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 364 km away54 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 371 km away133 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 373 km away55 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 373 km away115 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 373 km away38 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away98 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away74 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Geraldton 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	Geraldton Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	41	28	51
2012–13	20	29	50
2013–14	27	27	46
2014–15	52	32	43
2015–16	43	29	42
2016–17	57	35	41
2017–18	56	40	45
2018–19	47	42	45
2019–20	53	46	48
2020–21	79	53	56
2021–22	91	53	53
2022–23	191	62	59
2023–24	95	51	46
2024–25	96	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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