Gallbladder removal waiting time at Narrogin Hospital

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Narrogin area of Western Australia was 24 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: 24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 36 days in 2011–12 to 24 days in 2024–25 — down 33% — 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.

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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
Narrogin Hospital	24 days	not published	10 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.

Peel Health CampusWA · about 139 km away35 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 140 km away38 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 149 km away94 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 149 km away50 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 156 km away98 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 157 km away53 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 159 km away133 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 164 km away115 days

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

How the wait has changed

Narrogin 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	Narrogin Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	36	28	51
2012–13	36	29	50
2013–14	54	27	46
2014–15	48	32	43
2015–16	29	29	42
2016–17	22	35	41
2017–18	not published	40	45
2018–19	27	42	45
2019–20	not published	46	48
2020–21	26	53	56
2021–22	23	53	53
2022–23	43	62	59
2023–24	not published	51	46
2024–25	24	58	48

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

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