Surgery Waits

Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of waiting time at Fiona Stanley Hospital

The median wait for parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of at this public hospital in the Murdoch area of Western Australia was 30 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
30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
42 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 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 38 days in 2016–17 to 30 days in 2024–25 — down 21% — while the national median rose from 30 days to 45 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 Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Fiona Stanley Hospital30 daysnot published42 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 Fiona Stanley Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Fiona Stanley Hospital 30WA 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 periodFiona Stanley Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17386130
2017–18556238
2018–19334637
2019–20605841
2020–21225542
2021–22254534
2022–23364844
2023–24304043
2024–25305845

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

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