Surgery Waits

Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of waiting time at Bunbury Hospital

The median wait for parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of at this public hospital in the College Grove area of Western Australia was 39 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
39 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 54 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 76 days in 2021–22 to 39 days in 2024–25 — down 49% — while the national median rose from 34 days to 45 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fiona Stanley Hospital, about 145 km away, at 30 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Bunbury Hospital39 daysnot published10 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)58 days6.8%176 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)45 days4.1%1742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 45 days marks the national median.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of by financial year at Bunbury Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Bunbury Hospital 39WA 58Australia 45
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBunbury Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published6130
2017–18not published6238
2018–19not published4637
2019–20not published5841
2020–21not published5542
2021–22764534
2022–23not published4844
2023–24not published4043
2024–25395845

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

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