Surgery Waits

Spinal bone removal (laminectomy) waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for spinal bone removal (laminectomy) in Western Australia public hospitals was 75 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 66 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Laminectomy".

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

5 public hospitals in Western Australia reported spinal bone removal (laminectomy) in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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

1 hospital has 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 66 days marks the national median.

Laminectomy 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 Osborne Park Hospital 21 days not published 15 surgeries
2 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 48 days 2.3% 132 surgeries
3 Fiona Stanley Hospital 119 days 16.8% 95 surgeries
4 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 147 days not published 42 surgeries
unranked Perth Children's Hospital not published not published not published
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The median wait for spinal bone removal (laminectomy) in Western Australia public hospitals was 75 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Spinal bone removal (laminectomy) waiting times in WA", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/laminectomy/wa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/laminectomy/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.