Surgery Waits

Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Kununurra Hospital

The median wait for pterygium - excision of at this public hospital in the Kununurra area of Western Australia was 227 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
227 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
18 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 34 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 250 days in 2021–22 to 227 days in 2024–25 — down 9% — while the national median fell from 238 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Palmerston Regional Hospital, about 441 km away, at 181 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pterygium - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Kununurra Hospital227 daysnot published18 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published53 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)140 days11.1%621 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)197 days15.7%2442 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for pterygium - excision of by financial year at Kununurra Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Kununurra Hospital 227WA 140Australia 197
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Pterygium - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodKununurra Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published62128
2017–18not published78152
2018–19not published83125
2019–20not published98155
2020–21not published150230
2021–22250154238
2022–23119187241
2023–2484124191
2024–25227140197

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

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