Surgery Waits

Keyhole joint surgery waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for keyhole joint surgery in Western Australia public hospitals was 75 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 78 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Arthroscopy".

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

27 public hospitals in Western Australia reported keyhole joint surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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

7 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.

Arthroscopy in Western Australia public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Peel Health Campus 27 days 0.0% 58 surgeries
2 Hedland Health Campus 29 days not published 10 surgeries
3 Rockingham General Hospital 52 days not published 45 surgeries
4 Kalgoorlie Health Campus 56 days not published 11 surgeries
5 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 57 days 0.6% 175 surgeries
6 Karratha Health Campus 60 days not published 10 surgeries
7 Bentley Health Service 66 days 4.1% 74 surgeries
7 Osborne Park Hospital 66 days not published 36 surgeries
9 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 70 days not published 36 surgeries
10 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 73 days 0.9% 116 surgeries
11 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 76 days 10.8% 93 surgeries
12 Bunbury Hospital 92 days 3.8% 52 surgeries
13 Albany Hospital 96 days not published 14 surgeries
14 Perth Children's Hospital 101 days 9.6% 52 surgeries
15 Broome Hospital 106 days not published 11 surgeries
15 Busselton Health Campus 106 days 4.3% 70 surgeries
15 Geraldton Hospital 106 days not published 21 surgeries
18 Esperance Hospital 140 days not published 24 surgeries
19 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 167 days not published 30 surgeries
20 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 193 days 25.0% 72 surgeries
unranked Derby Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Fiona Stanley Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Katanning Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Kununurra Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Merredin Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Narrogin Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Northam Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in Western Australia: near Nedlands · near the Perth CBD.

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The median wait for keyhole joint surgery in Western Australia public hospitals was 75 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Keyhole joint surgery waiting times in WA", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/arthroscopy/wa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

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

What is not here

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

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Western Australia.