Spinal disc removal waiting time at Joondalup Health Campus (Public)
Half of patients at Joondalup Health Campus (Public) waited 30 days or less for spinal disc removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Discectomy". This public hospital is in the Joondalup 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
- 30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 25 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 30 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 14 days in 2016–17 to 30 days in 2024–25 — up 114% — while the national median stayed at 41 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Discectomy" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joondalup Health Campus (Public) | 30 days | not published | 25 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 62 days | 10.5% | 105 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 41 days | 4.5% | 1400 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 41 days marks the national median.
Osborne Park Hospital, WA · about 17 km away: 30 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, WA · about 26 km away: 119 days
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA · about 26 km away: 49 days
Fiona Stanley Hospital, WA · about 38 km away: 93 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Joondalup Health Campus (Public)
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Joondalup Health Campus (Public) (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 14 | 40 | 41 |
| 2017–18 | 41 | 53 | 42 |
| 2018–19 | 62 | 44 | 43 |
| 2019–20 | 244 | 68 | 49 |
| 2020–21 | 48 | 58 | 49 |
| 2021–22 | 75 | 59 | 49 |
| 2022–23 | 24 | 93 | 60 |
| 2023–24 | 17 | 51 | 48 |
| 2024–25 | 30 | 62 | 41 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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