Surgery Waits

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 down to 42% at Rockingham General Hospital.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

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 100% 5 days 10 surgeries
2 Hedland Health Campus 99% 5 days 137 surgeries
3 Albany Hospital 98% 23 days 985 surgeries
4 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 97% 12 days 1030 surgeries
5 Bunbury Hospital 96% 11 days 527 surgeries
5 Katanning Hospital 96% 16 days 22 surgeries
7 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 95% 14 days 403 surgeries
7 Esperance Hospital 95% 14 days 63 surgeries
7 Narrogin Hospital 95% 18 days 56 surgeries
7 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 95% 9 days 658 surgeries
11 Geraldton Hospital 94% 10 days 932 surgeries
11 Karratha Health Campus 94% 10 days 109 surgeries
13 King Edward Memorial Hospital 93% 4 days 1599 surgeries
13 Peel Health Campus 93% 8 days 751 surgeries
15 Kalgoorlie Health Campus 92% 14 days 108 surgeries
15 Perth Children's Hospital 92% 12 days 1123 surgeries
17 Busselton Health Campus 91% 9 days 330 surgeries
17 Northam Hospital 91% 12 days 11 surgeries
19 Derby Hospital 90% 3 days 31 surgeries
20 Broome Hospital 89% 9 days 113 surgeries
21 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 87% 14 days 4589 surgeries
22 Kununurra Hospital 85% 8 days 39 surgeries
23 Bentley Health Service 82% 22 days 978 surgeries
23 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 82% 15 days 4528 surgeries
25 Fiona Stanley Hospital 77% 16 days 5354 surgeries
26 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 75% 22 days 1416 surgeries
27 Osborne Park Hospital 54% 28 days 1097 surgeries
28 Carnarvon Hospital 48% 34 days 56 surgeries
29 Rockingham General Hospital 42% 40 days 1042 surgeries
unranked Bridgetown Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Margaret River Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Merredin Hospital not published not published not published
unranked 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, see Western Australia's waiting times by surgery, or start from what the urgency categories mean.