Discectomy waiting time at Osborne Park Hospital

The median wait for discectomy at this public hospital in the Stirling area of Western Australia was 30 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

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

Median wait: 30 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 30 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 56 days in 2016–17 to 30 days in 2024–25 — down 46% — while the national median stayed at 41 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 Discectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Osborne Park Hospital	30 days	not published	10 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	62 days	10.5%	105 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	41 days	4.5%	1400 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 41 days marks the national median.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 9 km away49 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 10 km away119 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 17 km away30 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 21 km away93 days

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

How the wait has changed

Osborne Park Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Discectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Osborne Park Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	56	40	41
2017–18	93	53	42
2018–19	43	44	43
2019–20	71	68	49
2020–21	63	58	49
2021–22	40	59	49
2022–23	69	93	60
2023–24	69	51	48
2024–25	30	62	41

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

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