Deviated septum surgery waiting time at Bunbury Hospital
Half of patients at Bunbury Hospital waited 161 days or less for deviated septum surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Septoplasty". 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
- 161 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 29 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 103 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 358 days in 2011–12 to 161 days in 2024–25 — down 55% — while the national median rose from 160 days to 320 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Septoplasty" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bunbury Hospital | 161 days | not published | 29 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 211 days | 25.2% | 421 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 320 days | 30.8% | 5687 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 320 days marks the national median.
Peel Health Campus, WA · about 93 km away: 217 days
Rockingham General Hospital, WA · about 120 km away: 171 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, WA · about 142 km away: 329 days
Fiona Stanley Hospital, WA · about 145 km away: 440 days
Bentley Health Service, WA · about 154 km away: 368 days
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA · about 156 km away: 344 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, WA · about 158 km away: 335 days
Osborne Park Hospital, WA · about 165 km away: 201 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 358 | 99 | 160 |
| 2012–13 | 313 | 124 | 197 |
| 2013–14 | 389 | 139 | 221 |
| 2014–15 | 353 | 183 | 214 |
| 2015–16 | 343 | 173 | 209 |
| 2016–17 | 307 | 161 | 209 |
| 2017–18 | 254 | 198 | 248 |
| 2018–19 | 203 | 205 | 241 |
| 2019–20 | 287 | 224 | 277 |
| 2020–21 | 375 | 308 | 330 |
| 2021–22 | 438 | 216 | 315 |
| 2022–23 | 564 | 288 | 365 |
| 2023–24 | 309 | 238 | 332 |
| 2024–25 | 161 | 211 | 320 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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