Surgery Waits

Public hospital surgery waiting times in Western Australia

In 2024–25, Western Australia's median waits ranged from 6 days for curettage and evacuation of uterus to 216 days for turbinate surgery (inside the nose), across 40 public hospitals.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

Western Australia public hospitals report their planned-surgery waiting times to the national collection once a year. This page brings the state's figures together: every surgery type with a published state median, every hospital, and the urgency-category performance — each linking to the detailed comparison.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick a surgery and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

Waiting times by surgery in Western Australia

Median waiting time by surgery type in Western Australia public hospitals, 2024–25, shortest first. Surgeries with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Surgery State median National median Waited more than 365 days Hospitals reporting
1 Curettage and evacuation of uterus 6 days 4 days 0.0% 24
2 Unhealed fracture repair 7 days 5 days 0.8% 15
3 Armpit lymph node removal 9 days 12 days 0.0% 13
4 Dialysis access surgery 12 days 15 days 0.1% 23
5 Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy 15 days 17 days 0.0% 4
6 Breast removal 18 days 19 days 2.1% 13
6 Large bowel surgery (colectomy) 18 days 18 days 0.6% 13
8 Breast lump removal 19 days 17 days 0.2% 17
9 Shock wave stone treatment 21 days 28 days 1.1% 13
10 Heart bypass surgery 22 days 19 days 0.4% 2
11 LLETZ procedure 28 days 33 days 0.0% 21
12 Prostate biopsy 29 days 33 days 0.8% 13
13 Examination of eye under anaesthesia 32 days 34 days 0.7% 3
13 Retina surgery 32 days 26 days 1.1% 8
15 Aortic aneurysm repair 33 days 24 days 0.0% 4
15 Skin lesion removal 33 days 26 days 1.9% 32
17 Kidney removal 37 days 30 days 0.4% 7
18 Toenail surgery 41 days 48 days 1.3% 28
19 Prostate surgery 48 days 55 days 6.2% 14
20 Thyroid gland removal 53 days 56 days 3.4% 10
21 Keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) 55 days 69 days 5.4% 24
22 Ovary and fallopian tube surgery 57 days 56 days 1.3% 17
23 Gallbladder removal 58 days 48 days 3.1% 24
23 Salivary gland removal 58 days 45 days 6.8% 12
25 ACL reconstruction 61 days 81 days 1.2% 23
26 Spinal disc removal 62 days 41 days 10.5% 5
27 Heart valve replacement 63 days 33 days 0.7% 3
28 Hysterectomy 64 days 74 days 5.3% 18
29 Tailbone cyst surgery 68 days 65 days 2.4% 23
30 Joint replacement revision 69 days 77 days 6.4% 12
30 Undescended testicle surgery 69 days 78 days 1.4% 11
32 Carpal tunnel surgery 71 days 71 days 3.6% 28
32 Haemorrhoid surgery 71 days 63 days 0.8% 25
34 Keyhole joint surgery 75 days 78 days 5.1% 27
34 Spinal bone removal (laminectomy) 75 days 66 days 9.4% 5
36 Hernia repair 78 days 86 days 5.9% 28
37 Inguinal hernia repair 79 days 73 days 3.2% 28
38 Cataract surgery 82 days 106 days 5.1% 22
39 Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets) 83 days 59 days 2.7% 16
40 Circumcision 84 days 80 days 8.7% 24
41 Parathyroid gland removal 87 days 82 days 3.9% 8
42 Eardrum drainage 90 days 80 days 4.7% 20
42 Shoulder decompression surgery 90 days 92 days 3.0% 21
44 Grommets 91 days 90 days 5.4% 15
45 Out-turned eyelid repair 92 days 136 days 11.2% 17
46 Hiatus hernia repair 95 days 88 days 10.2% 12
47 Female sterilisation 96 days 129 days 5.9% 20
47 Trigger finger release 96 days 90 days 10.6% 20
49 Ganglion cyst removal 100 days 105 days 6.0% 26
50 Cornea transplant 105 days 96 days 3.1% 6
50 Rotator cuff repair 105 days 111 days 3.5% 17
50 Shoulder reconstruction 105 days 88 days 6.2% 17
53 Varicose vein surgery 106 days 133 days 8.0% 17
54 Neck disc removal and fusion 109 days 94 days 6.7% 4
55 Bone realignment surgery 112 days 135 days 12.1% 17
56 Adenoid removal 119 days 144 days 28.5% 21
56 Prolapse repair 119 days 165 days 14.1% 17
58 Dupuytren's contracture surgery 125 days 150 days 16.5% 20
58 Hip replacement 125 days 130 days 10.6% 15
60 Joint fusion surgery 128 days 158 days 10.4% 17
61 Pterygium (eye growth) removal 140 days 197 days 11.1% 22
62 Shoulder joint replacement 148 days 174 days 13.1% 14
63 Droopy eyelid repair 151 days 238 days 22.2% 13
64 Knee replacement 155 days 255 days 18.8% 13
64 Scar revision 155 days 83 days 20.1% 17
66 Eardrum repair 162 days 264 days 27.8% 20
67 Keyhole sinus surgery 173 days 214 days 27.3% 11
68 Squint surgery 183 days 155 days 8.9% 13
68 Tonsillectomy 183 days 182 days 33.3% 18
70 Breast reconstruction 187 days 146 days 39.7% 9
71 Deviated septum surgery 211 days 320 days 25.2% 16
72 Turbinate surgery (inside the nose) 216 days 269 days 34.5% 14

Treated on time, by urgency category

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. What each category means, with every hospital compared nationally, is on the urgency categories pages.

Share of patients treated within the clinically recommended time at Western Australia public hospitals, by urgency category, 2024–25. Ranked on Category 1 (urgent); hospitals with the same figure share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
RankHospitalCategory 1 (urgent)Category 2 (semi-urgent)Category 3 (non-urgent)
1 Collie Hospital100%100%100%
2 Hedland Health Campus99%95%96%
3 Albany Hospital98%70%71%
4 Joondalup Health Campus (Public)97%96%96%
5 Bunbury Hospital96%77%88%
5 Katanning Hospital96%88%72%
7 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital95%88%98%
7 Esperance Hospital95%89%99%
7 Narrogin Hospital95%85%99%
7 St John of God Midland Public Hospital95%73%87%
11 Geraldton Hospital94%88%94%
11 Karratha Health Campus94%93%100%
13 King Edward Memorial Hospital93%87%97%
13 Peel Health Campus93%86%98%
15 Kalgoorlie Health Campus92%98%99%
15 Perth Children's Hospital92%66%62%
17 Busselton Health Campus91%75%96%
17 Northam Hospital91%91%100%
19 Derby Hospital90%70%93%
20 Broome Hospital89%61%83%
21 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus87%63%61%
22 Kununurra Hospital85%68%89%
23 Bentley Health Service82%75%96%
23 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital82%77%75%
25 Fiona Stanley Hospital77%56%38%
26 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service75%52%60%
27 Osborne Park Hospital54%71%88%
28 Carnarvon Hospital48%57%not published
29 Rockingham General Hospital42%52%82%
unranked Bridgetown Hospitalnot publishednot published100%
unranked Margaret River Hospitalnot publishednot published100%
unranked Merredin Hospitalnot published81%96%
unranked Warren Hospitalnot publishednot published98%

Compare a surgery at the big hospitals

Each link is one surgery at one hospital: the published median, the nearest alternatives — including across the border — and fourteen years of history.

Cite this page

In 2024–25, Western Australia's published median waits for planned surgery ranged from 6 days for curettage and evacuation of uterus to 216 days for turbinate surgery (inside the nose), across 40 public hospitals (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

Copy-ready citation

Surgery Waits, "Public hospital waiting lists in Western Australia", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/state/wa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/state/wa/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

Every public hospital in Western Australia

Sorted by how many surgery types each reported for 2024–25. A hospital's own page lists every surgery it reports, its urgency-category figures and its history.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

State medians cover everyone who had that surgery in the state, in all urgency categories together — how these figures are put together.