Surgery Waits

Scar revision waiting time at Bentley Health Service

The median wait for scar revision at this public hospital in the St James area of Western Australia was 171 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
171 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
15 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 29 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 475 days in 2023–24 to 171 days in 2024–25 — down 64% — while the national median fell from 103 days to 83 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fiona Stanley Hospital, about 10 km away, at 123 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Scar revision, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Bentley Health Service171 daysnot published15 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)155 days20.1%164 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)83 days9.5%1239 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 83 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 scar revision by financial year at Bentley Health Service, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays01252503755002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Bentley Health Service 171WA 155Australia 83
  • Bentley Health Service
  • WA
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Scar revision, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBentley Health Service (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published8665
2017–18not published7867
2018–19not published7773
2019–20not published6483
2020–21not published9884
2021–22not published103121
2022–23not published141133
2023–24475164103
2024–2517115583

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

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