Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Bunbury Hospital

The median wait for varicose vein surgery — published by the source as "Varicose veins treatment" — at this public hospital in the College Grove area of Western Australia was 198 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: 198 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 37 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 68 days in 2011–12 to 198 days in 2024–25 — up 191% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Busselton Health Campus, about 44 km away, at 181 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Varicose veins treatment, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Bunbury Hospital	198 days	not published	11 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	106 days	8.0%	373 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	133 days	9.5%	3346 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 133 days marks the national median.

Busselton Health CampusWA · about 44 km away181 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 142 km away78 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 146 km away96 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 154 km away181 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 158 km away179 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 165 km away253 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 167 km away14 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 181 km away30 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 Varicose veins treatment, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Bunbury Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	68	66	103
2012–13	62	70	96
2013–14	57	83	97
2014–15	29	73	105
2015–16	41	61	104
2016–17	61	48	90
2017–18	not published	51	101
2018–19	21	109	108
2019–20	65	107	129
2020–21	150	170	223
2021–22	133	114	208
2022–23	121	129	216
2023–24	163	158	189
2024–25	198	106	133

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

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