Shoulder decompression surgery waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
Half of patients at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus waited 149 days or less for shoulder decompression surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression". This public hospital is in the Perth 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
- 149 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 26 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 43 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 35 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 155 days in 2016–17 to 149 days in 2024–25 — down 4% — while the national median rose from 85 days to 92 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 5 km away, at 66 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus | 149 days | not published | 26 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 90 days | 3.0% | 537 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 92 days | 6.3% | 1418 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 92 days marks the national median.
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA · about 5 km away: 66 days
Bentley Health Service, WA · about 8 km away: 71 days
Osborne Park Hospital, WA · about 10 km away: 112 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, WA · about 16 km away: 93 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, WA · about 25 km away: 104 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public), WA · about 26 km away: 48 days
Rockingham General Hospital, WA · about 39 km away: 141 days
Peel Health Campus, WA · about 65 km away: 26 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 155 | 73 | 85 |
| 2017–18 | 97 | 83 | 95 |
| 2018–19 | 47 | 75 | 98 |
| 2019–20 | 167 | 92 | 108 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 94 | 141 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 101 | 131 |
| 2022–23 | 221 | 112 | 154 |
| 2023–24 | 72 | 88 | 101 |
| 2024–25 | 149 | 90 | 92 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus · Shoulder decompression surgery across Australia · Shoulder decompression surgery in Western Australia · All surgery waits in Western Australia