Surgery Waits

Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

The median wait for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as "Haemorrhoidectomy" — at this public hospital in the Perth area of Western Australia was 84 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
84 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
14 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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 66 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 99 days in 2011–12 to 84 days in 2024–25 — down 15% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bentley Health Service, about 8 km away, at 48 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus84 daysnot published14 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)71 days0.8%248 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)63 days2.6%4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 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 haemorrhoidectomy by financial year at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0501001502002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 84WA 71Australia 63
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12993457
2012–13683659
2013–14904059
2014–15not published4856
2015–16723754
2016–171974649
2017–181274447
2018–191395049
2019–20976957
2020–21916870
2021–22not published8377
2022–231149790
2023–241275867
2024–25847163

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

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