Gallbladder removal waiting time at Western Hospital [Footscray]

The median wait for gallbladder removal — published by the source as "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Footscray area of Victoria was 50 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: 50 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 104 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 82 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 59 days in 2011–12 to 50 days in 2024–25 — down 15% — while the national median fell from 51 days to 48 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sunshine Hospital, about 7 km away, at 25 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.3%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Western Hospital [Footscray]	50 days	0.0%	104 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	28 days	1.2%	4488 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.

Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 6 km away129 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away50 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 7 km away25 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 8 km away27 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 8 km away48 days
The AlfredVIC · about 10 km away36 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 15 km away32 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 16 km away20 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	Western Hospital [Footscray] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	59	54	51
2012–13	56	60	50
2013–14	76	47	46
2014–15	72	36	43
2015–16	43	31	42
2016–17	27	31	41
2017–18	41	35	45
2018–19	32	30	45
2019–20	19	29	48
2020–21	49	45	56
2021–22	20	37	53
2022–23	58	48	59
2023–24	26	27	46
2024–25	50	28	48

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

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