Lithotripsy waiting time at Bunbury Hospital

The median wait for lithotripsy at this public hospital in the College Grove area of Western Australia was 19 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: 19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 56 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 49 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 22 days in 2022–23 to 19 days in 2024–25 — down 14% — while the national median fell from 30 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peel Health Campus, about 93 km away, at 8 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.8%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Lithotripsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Bunbury Hospital	19 days	0.0%	56 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	21 days	1.1%	565 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.8%	2881 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

Peel Health CampusWA · about 93 km away8 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 146 km away33 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 154 km away26 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 156 km away36 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 158 km away35 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 167 km away8 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 181 km away21 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Lithotripsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Bunbury Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	not published	34
2017–18	not published	not published	29
2018–19	not published	not published	36
2019–20	not published	not published	28
2020–21	not published	not published	34
2021–22	not reported for this period	not published	33
2022–23	22	20	30
2023–24	15	16	28
2024–25	19	21	28

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

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