Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Geraldton Hospital
Half of patients at Geraldton Hospital waited 121 days or less for varicose vein surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Varicose veins treatment". This public hospital is in the Beachlands 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
- 121 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 31 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 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 24 days in 2011–12 to 121 days in 2024–25 — up 404% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 347 km away, at 30 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Varicose veins treatment" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geraldton Hospital | 121 days | not published | 31 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.
Joondalup Health Campus (Public), WA · about 347 km away: 30 days
Osborne Park Hospital, WA · about 364 km away: 253 days
St John of God Midland Public Hospital, WA · about 371 km away: 14 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, WA · about 373 km away: 179 days
Bentley Health Service, WA · about 380 km away: 181 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, WA · about 380 km away: 96 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, WA · about 396 km away: 78 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Geraldton Hospital
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Geraldton Hospital (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 24 | 66 | 103 |
| 2012–13 | 202 | 70 | 96 |
| 2013–14 | 24 | 83 | 97 |
| 2014–15 | 18 | 73 | 105 |
| 2015–16 | 26 | 61 | 104 |
| 2016–17 | 45 | 48 | 90 |
| 2017–18 | 22 | 51 | 101 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 109 | 108 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 107 | 129 |
| 2020–21 | 462 | 170 | 223 |
| 2021–22 | 280 | 114 | 208 |
| 2022–23 | 204 | 129 | 216 |
| 2023–24 | 174 | 158 | 189 |
| 2024–25 | 121 | 106 | 133 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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