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Bone realignment surgery waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for bone realignment surgery in Western Australia public hospitals was 112 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 135 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Osteotomy".

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

17 public hospitals in Western Australia reported bone realignment surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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

10 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 135 days marks the national median.

Osteotomy 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 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 63 days not published 39 surgeries
2 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 74 days not published 10 surgeries
3 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 98 days not published 32 surgeries
4 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 112 days not published 41 surgeries
5 Bentley Health Service 145 days not published 13 surgeries
6 Perth Children's Hospital 149 days 12.9% 93 surgeries
7 Fiona Stanley Hospital 150 days not published 26 surgeries
unranked Albany Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Busselton Health Campus not published not published not published
unranked Derby Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Geraldton Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Kalgoorlie Health Campus not published not published not published
unranked Osborne Park Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Peel Health Campus not published not published not published
unranked Rockingham General Hospital not published not published not published
unranked St John of God Midland Public Hospital not published not published not published

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

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The median wait for bone realignment surgery in Western Australia public hospitals was 112 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

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