Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of waiting time at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

The median wait for parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of at this public hospital in the Kings Park area of Western Australia was 38 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: 38 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 46 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 54 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 83 days in 2016–17 to 38 days in 2024–25 — down 54% — while the national median rose from 30 days to 45 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fiona Stanley Hospital, about 12 km away, at 30 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	38 days	not published	46 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	58 days	6.8%	176 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	45 days	4.1%	1742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 45 days marks the national median.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away69 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away30 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away52 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 156 km away39 days

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

How the wait has changed

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	83	61	30
2017–18	66	62	38
2018–19	34	46	37
2019–20	57	58	41
2020–21	18	55	42
2021–22	18	45	34
2022–23	21	48	44
2023–24	20	40	43
2024–25	38	58	45

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

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