Surgery Waits

Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Peel Health Campus

The median wait for pterygium - excision of at this public hospital in the Greenfields area of Western Australia was 83 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
83 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
71 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
4.2%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 166 days in 2016–17 to 83 days in 2024–25 — down 50% — while the national median rose from 128 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Osborne Park Hospital, about 72 km away, at 63 days. Here, 4.2% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 15.7%.

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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
Peel Health Campus83 days4.2%71 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for pterygium - excision of by financial year at Peel Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Peel Health Campus 83WA 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 periodPeel Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–1716662128
2017–189078152
2018–1931683125
2019–2017798155
2020–2183150230
2021–2280154238
2022–2312187241
2023–2415124191
2024–2583140197

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

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