Laparoscopy waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Crawley area of Western Australia was 54 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: 54 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 33 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 51 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 96 days in 2018–19 to 54 days in 2024–25 — down 44% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 0 km away, at 12 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Perth Children's Hospital	54 days	not published	33 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	55 days	5.4%	797 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	69 days	5.4%	9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 0 km away12 days
King Edward Memorial HospitalWA · about 2 km away51 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away6 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 9 km away112 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away10 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away77 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 20 km away217 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away33 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 Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Perth Children's Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	34	47
2017–18	not published	41	51
2018–19	96	47	57
2019–20	50	56	64
2020–21	63	62	79
2021–22	38	57	78
2022–23	77	47	82
2023–24	58	56	69
2024–25	54	55	69

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

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