Shoulder decompression surgery waiting time at Bunbury Hospital
Half of patients at Bunbury Hospital waited 79 days or less for shoulder decompression surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression". This public hospital is in the College Grove 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 43 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 138 days in 2021–22 to 79 days in 2024–25 — down 43% — while the national median fell from 131 days to 92 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peel Health Campus, about 93 km away, at 26 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bunbury Hospital | 79 days | not published | 25 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 90 days | 3.0% | 537 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 92 days | 6.3% | 1418 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 92 days marks the national median.
Busselton Health Campus, WA · about 44 km away: 96 days
Peel Health Campus, WA · about 93 km away: 26 days
Rockingham General Hospital, WA · about 120 km away: 141 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, WA · about 142 km away: 104 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, WA · about 146 km away: 93 days
Bentley Health Service, WA · about 154 km away: 71 days
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA · about 156 km away: 66 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, WA · about 158 km away: 149 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Bunbury Hospital
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Bunbury Hospital (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 73 | 85 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 83 | 95 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 75 | 98 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | 92 | 108 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 94 | 141 |
| 2021–22 | 138 | 101 | 131 |
| 2022–23 | 242 | 112 | 154 |
| 2023–24 | 99 | 88 | 101 |
| 2024–25 | 79 | 90 | 92 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Bunbury Hospital · Shoulder decompression surgery across Australia · Shoulder decompression surgery in Western Australia · All surgery waits in Western Australia