Joint fusion surgery waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
Half of patients at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service waited 120 days or less for joint fusion surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Arthrodesis". This public hospital is in the Fremantle 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
- 120 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 46 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 51 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 103 days in 2016–17 to 120 days in 2024–25 — up 17% — while the national median rose from 101 days to 158 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 36 km away, at 84 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fremantle Hospital and Health Service | 120 days | not published | 46 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 128 days | 10.4% | 163 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 158 days | 19.3% | 1563 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 158 days marks the national median.
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA · about 12 km away: 133 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public), WA · about 36 km away: 84 days
Peel Health Campus, WA · about 53 km away: 56 days
Bunbury Hospital, WA · about 146 km away: 195 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Fremantle Hospital and Health Service (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 103 | 84 | 101 |
| 2017–18 | 75 | 87 | 105 |
| 2018–19 | 89 | 110 | 111 |
| 2019–20 | 80 | 115 | 107 |
| 2020–21 | 165 | 154 | 182 |
| 2021–22 | 133 | 139 | 185 |
| 2022–23 | 106 | 154 | 203 |
| 2023–24 | 122 | 141 | 171 |
| 2024–25 | 120 | 128 | 158 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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