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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fremantle Hospital and Health Service | 346 days | not published | 13 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 183 days | 8.9% | 213 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 155 days | 14.4% | 1087 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Fremantle Hospital and Health Service (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 98 | 85 |
| 2017–18 | 126 | 110 | 101 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 125 | 123 |
| 2019–20 | 214 | 125 | 146 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 264 | 168 |
| 2021–22 | 310 | 237 | 174 |
| 2022–23 | 337 | 322 | 212 |
| 2023–24 | 397 | 186 | 141 |
| 2024–25 | 346 | 183 | 155 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service · Squint surgery across Australia · Squint surgery in Western Australia