Surgery Waits

Squint surgery waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service

The median wait for squint surgery — published by the source as "Procedure for strabismus (squint repair)" — at this public hospital in the Fremantle area of Western Australia was 346 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
346 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 25 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 risen from 126 days in 2017–18 to 346 days in 2024–25 — up 175% — while the national median rose from 101 days to 155 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Perth Children's Hospital, about 12 km away, at 196 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Procedure for strabismus (squint repair), 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service346 daysnot published13 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)183 days8.9%213 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)155 days14.4%1087 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 155 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 procedure for strabismus (squint repair) by financial year at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 346WA 183Australia 155
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Procedure for strabismus (squint repair), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodFremantle Hospital and Health Service (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published9885
2017–18126110101
2018–19not published125123
2019–20214125146
2020–21not published264168
2021–22310237174
2022–23337322212
2023–24397186141
2024–25346183155

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

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