Surgery Waits

Corneal graft waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

The median wait for corneal graft at this public hospital in the Perth area of Western Australia was 83 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
83 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
27 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 13 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 57 days in 2021–22 to 83 days in 2024–25 — up 46% — while the national median rose from 83 days to 96 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Corneal graft, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus83 daysnot published27 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)105 days3.1%129 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)96 days5.5%398 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 96 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for corneal graft by financial year at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 83WA 105Australia 96
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Corneal graft, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published70
2017–18not publishednot published79
2018–19not reported for this periodnot published78
2019–20not publishednot published77
2020–21not reported for this periodnot published73
2021–2257not published83
2022–2355not published83
2023–24118121103
2024–258310596

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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