Shoulder reconstruction waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

The median wait for shoulder reconstruction at this public hospital in the Perth area of Western Australia was 53 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: 53 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 44 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 32 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 79 days in 2016–17 to 53 days in 2024–25 — down 33% — while the national median rose from 80 days to 88 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Shoulder reconstruction" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Shoulder reconstruction, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	53 days	not published	44 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	105 days	6.2%	226 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	88 days	6.6%	835 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 88 days marks the national median.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 5 km away72 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 8 km away104 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away136 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away98 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away100 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 39 km away160 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 158 km away128 days

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

How the wait has changed

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
WA
Australia

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Shoulder reconstruction, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	79	76	80
2017–18	33	73	84
2018–19	40	78	84
2019–20	37	83	90
2020–21	29	85	92
2021–22	41	99	98
2022–23	41	112	109
2023–24	49	67	89
2024–25	53	105	88

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

All surgery at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus · Shoulder reconstruction across Australia · Shoulder reconstruction in Western Australia