Untethering of spinal cord waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital
The median wait for untethering of spinal cord at this public hospital in the Crawley area of Western Australia was 131 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
- 131 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 3 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 112 days in 2023–24 to 131 days in 2024–25 — up 17%.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perth Children's Hospital | 131 days | not published | 13 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 14 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 56 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.
How the wait has changed
- Perth Children's Hospital
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Perth Children's Hospital (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not published | 42 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not published | 44 |
| 2018–19 | not published | not published | 43 |
| 2019–20 | not published | not published | not published |
| 2020–21 | not published | not published | not published |
| 2021–22 | not published | not published | not published |
| 2022–23 | not published | not published | not published |
| 2023–24 | 112 | not published | not published |
| 2024–25 | 131 | not published | not published |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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