Surgery Waits

Orchidectomy waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

The median wait for orchidectomy at this public hospital in the Perth area of Western Australia was 9 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
9 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
20 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 11 days in 2019–20 to 9 days in 2024–25 — down 18% — while the national median rose from 9 days to 11 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 5 km away, at 6 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Orchidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus9 daysnot published20 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published98 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)11 days0.8%718 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 11 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 orchidectomy by financial year at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays04811152016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 9WA 13Australia 11
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Orchidectomy, 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 published9
2017–18not published1310
2018–19not publishednot published11
2019–2011not published9
2020–2113not published11
2021–228not published11
2022–23not publishednot published11
2023–247not published10
2024–259not published11

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

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