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title: "Category 1 (urgent) waiting times in Western Australia"
description: "Category 1 (urgent) planned surgery in Western Australia: the recommended maximum wait of 30 days, and each public hospital's on-time share for 2024–25."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-1/wa/"
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# Category 1 (urgent) waiting times in Western Australia

Of the 29 public hospitals that published a figure for 2024–25, the share treated on time ranged from **100%** at [Collie Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/collie-hospital/) down to **42%** at [Rockingham General Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/rockingham-general-hospital/).

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

**Category 1 (urgent)** means surgery is recommended within **30 days** of being placed on the waiting list. Surgery that is clinically urgent: the condition can deteriorate quickly enough to become an emergency. The table ranks Western Australia's public hospitals by the share of urgent patients treated within that time in 2024–25.

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures.

Category 1 (urgent) planned surgery at Western Australia public hospitals, 2024–25, ranked by the share treated within the recommended time — highest first. Hospitals with the same figure share a rank; a hospital with no published figure is listed unranked. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

| Rank | Hospital | Treated on time | Median wait | Surgeries |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Collie Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/collie-hospital/) | 100% | 5 days | 10 surgeries |
| 2 | [Hedland Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/hedland-health-campus/) | 99% | 5 days | 137 surgeries |
| 3 | [Albany Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/albany-hospital/) | 98% | 23 days | 985 surgeries |
| 4 | [Joondalup Health Campus (Public)](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/joondalup-health-campus-public/) | 97% | 12 days | 1030 surgeries |
| 5 | [Bunbury Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bunbury-hospital/) | 96% | 11 days | 527 surgeries |
| 5 | [Katanning Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/katanning-hospital/) | 96% | 16 days | 22 surgeries |
| 7 | [Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/armadale-kelmscott-memorial-hospital/) | 95% | 14 days | 403 surgeries |
| 7 | [Esperance Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/esperance-hospital/) | 95% | 14 days | 63 surgeries |
| 7 | [Narrogin Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/narrogin-hospital/) | 95% | 18 days | 56 surgeries |
| 7 | [St John of God Midland Public Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/st-john-of-god-midland-public-hospital/) | 95% | 9 days | 658 surgeries |
| 11 | [Geraldton Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/geraldton-hospital/) | 94% | 10 days | 932 surgeries |
| 11 | [Karratha Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/karratha-health-campus/) | 94% | 10 days | 109 surgeries |
| 13 | [King Edward Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/king-edward-memorial-hospital/) | 93% | 4 days | 1599 surgeries |
| 13 | [Peel Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/peel-health-campus/) | 93% | 8 days | 751 surgeries |
| 15 | [Kalgoorlie Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/kalgoorlie-health-campus/) | 92% | 14 days | 108 surgeries |
| 15 | [Perth Children's Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/perth-childrens-hospital/) | 92% | 12 days | 1123 surgeries |
| 17 | [Busselton Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/busselton-health-campus/) | 91% | 9 days | 330 surgeries |
| 17 | [Northam Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/northam-hospital/) | 91% | 12 days | 11 surgeries |
| 19 | [Derby Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/derby-hospital/) | 90% | 3 days | 31 surgeries |
| 20 | [Broome Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/broome-hospital/) | 89% | 9 days | 113 surgeries |
| 21 | [Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-perth-hospital-wellington-street-campus/) | 87% | 14 days | 4589 surgeries |
| 22 | [Kununurra Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/kununurra-hospital/) | 85% | 8 days | 39 surgeries |
| 23 | [Bentley Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bentley-health-service/) | 82% | 22 days | 978 surgeries |
| 23 | [Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/sir-charles-gairdner-hospital/) | 82% | 15 days | 4528 surgeries |
| 25 | [Fiona Stanley Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/fiona-stanley-hospital/) | 77% | 16 days | 5354 surgeries |
| 26 | [Fremantle Hospital and Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/fremantle-hospital-and-health-service/) | 75% | 22 days | 1416 surgeries |
| 27 | [Osborne Park Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/osborne-park-hospital/) | 54% | 28 days | 1097 surgeries |
| 28 | [Carnarvon Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/carnarvon-hospital/) | 48% | 34 days | 56 surgeries |
| 29 | [Rockingham General Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/rockingham-general-hospital/) | 42% | 40 days | 1042 surgeries |
| unranked | [Bridgetown Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bridgetown-hospital/) | not published | not published | 5 surgeries |
| unranked | [Margaret River Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/margaret-river-hospital/) | not published | not published | not published |
| unranked | [Merredin Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/merredin-hospital/) | not published | not published | not published |
| unranked | [Warren Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/warren-hospital/) | not published | not published | not published |

## What is not here

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

Compare with [every state's hospitals](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-1/), see [Western Australia's waiting times by surgery](https://surgerywaits.au/state/wa/), or start from [what the urgency categories mean](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/).

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

**In an emergency call 000.**

Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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