Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
The median wait for pterygium - excision of at this public hospital in the Fremantle area of Western Australia was 433 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 433 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 87 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 59.8%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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 63 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 84 days in 2016–17 to 433 days in 2024–25 — up 415% — while the national median rose from 128 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 12 km away, at 95 days. Here, 59.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 15.7%.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fremantle Hospital and Health Service | 433 days | 59.8% | 87 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 140 days | 11.1% | 621 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 197 days | 15.7% | 2442 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
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 | 84 | 62 | 128 |
| 2017–18 | 251 | 78 | 152 |
| 2018–19 | 164 | 83 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | 167 | 98 | 155 |
| 2020–21 | 161 | 150 | 230 |
| 2021–22 | 189 | 154 | 238 |
| 2022–23 | 281 | 187 | 241 |
| 2023–24 | 163 | 124 | 191 |
| 2024–25 | 433 | 140 | 197 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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