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Deviated septum surgery waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for deviated septum surgery in Western Australia public hospitals was 211 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 320 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Septoplasty".

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

16 public hospitals in Western Australia reported deviated septum surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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

3 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 320 days marks the national median.

Septoplasty 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 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 64 days not published 40 surgeries
2 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 155 days 0.0% 58 surgeries
3 Bunbury Hospital 161 days not published 29 surgeries
4 Rockingham General Hospital 171 days not published 19 surgeries
5 Osborne Park Hospital 201 days 23.1% 52 surgeries
6 Peel Health Campus 217 days not published 26 surgeries
7 Geraldton Hospital 298 days not published 26 surgeries
8 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 329 days not published 10 surgeries
9 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 335 days not published 46 surgeries
10 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 344 days not published 41 surgeries
11 Albany Hospital 362 days not published 23 surgeries
12 Bentley Health Service 368 days not published 19 surgeries
13 Fiona Stanley Hospital 440 days not published 14 surgeries
unranked Broome Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Fremantle Hospital and Health Service not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Perth Children's Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries

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

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The median wait for deviated septum surgery in Western Australia public hospitals was 211 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

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