Glaucoma drainage surgery waiting time at Bentley Health Service
Half of patients at Bentley Health Service waited 79 days or less for glaucoma drainage surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Trabeculectomy". This public hospital is in the St James area of Western Australia.
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
- 79 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 25 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 19 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 17 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 60 days in 2016–17 to 79 days in 2024–25 — up 32% — while the national median rose from 21 days to 32 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St John of God Midland Public Hospital, about 14 km away, at 9 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bentley Health Service | 79 days | not published | 25 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 76 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 32 days | 0.1% | 716 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 32 days marks the national median.
St John of God Midland Public Hospital, WA · about 14 km away: 9 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, WA · about 18 km away: 51 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Bentley Health Service
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Bentley Health Service (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 60 | 42 | 21 |
| 2017–18 | 58 | 29 | 24 |
| 2018–19 | 45 | 49 | 27 |
| 2019–20 | 67 | 52 | 24 |
| 2020–21 | 32 | 37 | 21 |
| 2021–22 | 52 | 50 | 21 |
| 2022–23 | 29 | not published | 28 |
| 2023–24 | 31 | not published | 29 |
| 2024–25 | 79 | not published | 32 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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