Public hospital surgery waiting times in Western Australia

Name: Public hospital surgery waiting times in Western Australia, 2024–25
Creator: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Published: 2026-05-28
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

In 2024–25, Western Australia's median waits ranged from 6 days for curettage and evacuation of uterus to 216 days for turbinectomy, across 40 public hospitals.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Western Australia public hospitals report their planned-surgery waiting times to the national collection once a year. This page brings the state's figures together: every surgery type with a published state median, every hospital, and the urgency-category performance — each linking to the detailed comparison.

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

Waiting times by surgery in Western Australia

Median waiting time by surgery type in Western Australia public hospitals, 2024–25, shortest first. Surgeries with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	Surgery	State median	National median	Waited more than 365 days	Hospitals reporting
1	Curettage and evacuation of uterus	6 days	4 days	0.0%	24
2	Fracture non-union - treatment of	7 days	5 days	0.8%	15
3	Axillary node dissection	9 days	12 days	0.0%	13
4	Dialysis access surgery	12 days	15 days	0.1%	23
5	Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy	15 days	17 days	0.0%	4
6	Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection	18 days	18 days	0.6%	13
6	Mastectomy	18 days	19 days	2.1%	13
8	Breast lump removal	19 days	17 days	0.2%	17
9	Lithotripsy	21 days	28 days	1.1%	13
10	Coronary artery bypass grafting	22 days	19 days	0.4%	2
11	LLETZ procedure	28 days	33 days	0.0%	21
12	Prostate biopsy	29 days	33 days	0.8%	13
13	Examination of eye under anaesthesia	32 days	34 days	0.7%	3
13	Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy)	32 days	26 days	1.1%	8
15	Abdominal or thoracic aortic aneurysm - repair/replacement	33 days	24 days	0.0%	4
15	Skin lesion removal	33 days	26 days	1.9%	32
17	Nephrectomy	37 days	30 days	0.4%	7
18	Toenail surgery	41 days	48 days	1.3%	28
19	Prostate surgery	48 days	55 days	6.2%	14
20	Thyroidectomy/hemi-thyroidectomy	53 days	56 days	3.4%	10
21	Laparoscopy	55 days	69 days	5.4%	24
22	Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy	57 days	56 days	1.3%	17
23	Gallbladder removal	58 days	48 days	3.1%	24
23	Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of	58 days	45 days	6.8%	12
25	ACL reconstruction	61 days	81 days	1.2%	23
26	Discectomy	62 days	41 days	10.5%	5
27	Heart valve replacement	63 days	33 days	0.7%	3
28	Hysterectomy	64 days	74 days	5.3%	18
29	Pilonidal sinus surgery	68 days	65 days	2.4%	23
30	Arthroplasty - revision of	69 days	77 days	6.4%	12
30	Orchidopexy	69 days	78 days	1.4%	11
32	Carpal tunnel surgery	71 days	71 days	3.6%	28
32	Haemorrhoid surgery	71 days	63 days	0.8%	25
34	Arthroscopy	75 days	78 days	5.1%	27
34	Laminectomy	75 days	66 days	9.4%	5
36	Hernia repair	78 days	86 days	5.9%	28
37	Inguinal hernia repair	79 days	73 days	3.2%	28
38	Cataract surgery	82 days	106 days	5.1%	22
39	Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets)	83 days	59 days	2.7%	16
40	Circumcision	84 days	80 days	8.7%	24
41	Parathyroidectomy	87 days	82 days	3.9%	8
42	Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression	90 days	92 days	3.0%	21
42	Myringotomy	90 days	80 days	4.7%	20
44	Grommets	91 days	90 days	5.4%	15
45	Ectropion - correction of	92 days	136 days	11.2%	17
46	Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia	95 days	88 days	10.2%	12
47	Female sterilisation	96 days	129 days	5.9%	20
47	Trigger finger release	96 days	90 days	10.6%	20
49	Ganglion - excision of	100 days	105 days	6.0%	26
50	Corneal graft	105 days	96 days	3.1%	6
50	Rotator cuff repair	105 days	111 days	3.5%	17
50	Shoulder reconstruction	105 days	88 days	6.2%	17
53	Varicose vein surgery	106 days	133 days	8.0%	17
54	Cervical discectomy and fusion	109 days	94 days	6.7%	4
55	Osteotomy	112 days	135 days	12.1%	17
56	Adenoidectomy	119 days	144 days	28.5%	21
56	Prolapse repair	119 days	165 days	14.1%	17
58	Dupuytren's contracture surgery	125 days	150 days	16.5%	20
58	Hip replacement	125 days	130 days	10.6%	15
60	Arthrodesis	128 days	158 days	10.4%	17
61	Pterygium - excision of	140 days	197 days	11.1%	22
62	Shoulder joint replacement	148 days	174 days	13.1%	14
63	Ptosis - repair of	151 days	238 days	22.2%	13
64	Knee replacement	155 days	255 days	18.8%	13
64	Scar revision	155 days	83 days	20.1%	17
66	Eardrum repair	162 days	264 days	27.8%	20
67	Functional endoscopic sinus surgery	173 days	214 days	27.3%	11
68	Squint surgery	183 days	155 days	8.9%	13
68	Tonsillectomy	183 days	182 days	33.3%	18
70	Breast reconstruction	187 days	146 days	39.7%	9
71	Septoplasty	211 days	320 days	25.2%	16
72	Turbinectomy	216 days	269 days	34.5%	14

Treated on time, by urgency category

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. What each category means, with every hospital compared nationally, is on the urgency categories pages.

Share of patients treated within the clinically recommended time at Western Australia public hospitals, by urgency category, 2024–25. Ranked on Category 1 (urgent); hospitals with the same figure share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	Hospital	Category 1 (urgent)	Category 2 (semi-urgent)	Category 3 (non-urgent)
1	Collie Hospital	100%	100%	100%
2	Hedland Health Campus	99%	95%	96%
3	Albany Hospital	98%	70%	71%
4	Joondalup Health Campus (Public)	97%	96%	96%
5	Bunbury Hospital	96%	77%	88%
5	Katanning Hospital	96%	88%	72%
7	Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital	95%	88%	98%
7	Esperance Hospital	95%	89%	99%
7	Narrogin Hospital	95%	85%	99%
7	St John of God Midland Public Hospital	95%	73%	87%
11	Geraldton Hospital	94%	88%	94%
11	Karratha Health Campus	94%	93%	100%
13	King Edward Memorial Hospital	93%	87%	97%
13	Peel Health Campus	93%	86%	98%
15	Kalgoorlie Health Campus	92%	98%	99%
15	Perth Children's Hospital	92%	66%	62%
17	Busselton Health Campus	91%	75%	96%
17	Northam Hospital	91%	91%	100%
19	Derby Hospital	90%	70%	93%
20	Broome Hospital	89%	61%	83%
21	Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	87%	63%	61%
22	Kununurra Hospital	85%	68%	89%
23	Bentley Health Service	82%	75%	96%
23	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	82%	77%	75%
25	Fiona Stanley Hospital	77%	56%	38%
26	Fremantle Hospital and Health Service	75%	52%	60%
27	Osborne Park Hospital	54%	71%	88%
28	Carnarvon Hospital	48%	57%	not published
29	Rockingham General Hospital	42%	52%	82%
unranked	Bridgetown Hospital	not published	not published	100%
unranked	Margaret River Hospital	not published	not published	100%
unranked	Merredin Hospital	not published	81%	96%
unranked	Warren Hospital	not published	not published	98%

Compare a surgery at the big hospitals

Each link is one surgery at one hospital: the published median, the nearest alternatives — including across the border — and fourteen years of history.

Cite this page

In 2024–25, Western Australia's published median waits for planned surgery ranged from 6 days for curettage and evacuation of uterus to 216 days for turbinectomy, across 40 public hospitals.

Copy-ready citation

SurgeryWaits, "Public hospital waiting lists in Western Australia", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/state/wa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: SurgeryWaits (https://surgerywaits.au/state/wa/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

Every public hospital in Western Australia

Sorted by how many surgery types each reported for 2024–25. A hospital's own page lists every surgery it reports, its urgency-category figures and its history.

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital — 112 surgery types
Joondalup Health Campus (Public) — 97 surgery types
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service — 94 surgery types
Fiona Stanley Hospital — 93 surgery types
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus — 90 surgery types
Perth Children's Hospital — 88 surgery types
Osborne Park Hospital — 84 surgery types
Bunbury Hospital — 82 surgery types
Peel Health Campus — 82 surgery types
Albany Hospital — 81 surgery types
St John of God Midland Public Hospital — 75 surgery types
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital — 73 surgery types
Geraldton Hospital — 69 surgery types
Busselton Health Campus — 63 surgery types
Rockingham General Hospital — 59 surgery types
Bentley Health Service — 57 surgery types
Broome Hospital — 43 surgery types
Esperance Hospital — 39 surgery types
Kalgoorlie Health Campus — 37 surgery types
Hedland Health Campus — 33 surgery types
Karratha Health Campus — 33 surgery types
Kununurra Hospital — 32 surgery types
Derby Hospital — 25 surgery types
Narrogin Hospital — 25 surgery types
Northam Hospital — 15 surgery types
Katanning Hospital — 13 surgery types
King Edward Memorial Hospital — 13 surgery types
Merredin Hospital — 13 surgery types
Warren Hospital — 11 surgery types
Bridgetown Hospital — 8 surgery types
Collie Hospital — 5 surgery types
Carnarvon Hospital — 2 surgery types
Margaret River Hospital — 2 surgery types
Kalamunda Hospital — 0 surgery types
Kaleeya Hospital — 0 surgery types
Moora Hospital — 0 surgery types
Nickol Bay Hospital — 0 surgery types
Princess Margaret Hospital for Children — 0 surgery types
Royal Perth Hospital Shenton Park Campus — 0 surgery types
Swan District Hospital — 0 surgery types

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

State medians cover everyone who had that surgery in the state, in all urgency categories together — how these figures are put together.