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Shoulder joint replacement waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for shoulder joint replacement in Western Australia public hospitals was 148 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 174 days.

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

14 public hospitals in Western Australia reported shoulder joint replacement in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Shoulder joint replacement" 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 174 days marks the national median.

Shoulder joint replacement 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 30 days not published 12 surgeries
2 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 80 days 3.0% 66 surgeries
3 Albany Hospital 96 days not published 16 surgeries
4 Osborne Park Hospital 110 days not published 13 surgeries
5 Geraldton Hospital 115 days not published 32 surgeries
6 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 126 days not published 35 surgeries
7 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 140 days not published 43 surgeries
7 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 140 days not published 38 surgeries
9 Busselton Health Campus 189 days not published 14 surgeries
10 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 233 days not published 23 surgeries
11 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 248 days 23.1% 52 surgeries
12 Rockingham General Hospital 286 days not published 31 surgeries
13 Bunbury Hospital 306 days not published 21 surgeries
unranked Fiona Stanley 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 shoulder joint replacement in Western Australia public hospitals was 148 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/shoulder-joint-replacement/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.