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title: "Category 2 (semi-urgent) waiting times in Western Australia"
description: "Category 2 (semi-urgent) planned surgery in Western Australia: the recommended maximum wait of 90 days, and each public hospital's on-time share for 2024–25."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-2/wa/"
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# Category 2 (semi-urgent) waiting times in Western Australia

Of the 30 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 **52%** 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 2 (semi-urgent)** means surgery is recommended within **90 days** of being placed on the waiting list. Surgery for a condition causing pain, dysfunction or disability, but unlikely to deteriorate quickly. The table ranks Western Australia's public hospitals by the share of semi-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 2 (semi-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% | 24 days | 10 surgeries |
| 2 | [Kalgoorlie Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/kalgoorlie-health-campus/) | 98% | 45 days | 332 surgeries |
| 3 | [Joondalup Health Campus (Public)](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/joondalup-health-campus-public/) | 96% | 30 days | 895 surgeries |
| 4 | [Hedland Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/hedland-health-campus/) | 95% | 32 days | 217 surgeries |
| 5 | [Karratha Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/karratha-health-campus/) | 93% | 41 days | 226 surgeries |
| 6 | [Northam Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/northam-hospital/) | 91% | 29 days | 43 surgeries |
| 7 | [Esperance Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/esperance-hospital/) | 89% | 53 days | 117 surgeries |
| 8 | [Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/armadale-kelmscott-memorial-hospital/) | 88% | 48 days | 1267 surgeries |
| 8 | [Geraldton Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/geraldton-hospital/) | 88% | 49 days | 661 surgeries |
| 8 | [Katanning Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/katanning-hospital/) | 88% | 46 days | 68 surgeries |
| 11 | [King Edward Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/king-edward-memorial-hospital/) | 87% | 48 days | 750 surgeries |
| 12 | [Peel Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/peel-health-campus/) | 86% | 36 days | 2258 surgeries |
| 13 | [Narrogin Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/narrogin-hospital/) | 85% | 56 days | 100 surgeries |
| 14 | [Merredin Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/merredin-hospital/) | 81% | 37 days | 37 surgeries |
| 15 | [Bunbury Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bunbury-hospital/) | 77% | 52 days | 833 surgeries |
| 15 | [Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/sir-charles-gairdner-hospital/) | 77% | 42 days | 2957 surgeries |
| 17 | [Bentley Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bentley-health-service/) | 75% | 51 days | 1413 surgeries |
| 17 | [Busselton Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/busselton-health-campus/) | 75% | 51 days | 570 surgeries |
| 19 | [St John of God Midland Public Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/st-john-of-god-midland-public-hospital/) | 73% | 45 days | 971 surgeries |
| 20 | [Osborne Park Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/osborne-park-hospital/) | 71% | 55 days | 1618 surgeries |
| 21 | [Albany Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/albany-hospital/) | 70% | 76 days | 1531 surgeries |
| 21 | [Derby Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/derby-hospital/) | 70% | 62 days | 70 surgeries |
| 23 | [Kununurra Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/kununurra-hospital/) | 68% | 80 days | 91 surgeries |
| 24 | [Perth Children's Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/perth-childrens-hospital/) | 66% | 72 days | 3050 surgeries |
| 25 | [Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-perth-hospital-wellington-street-campus/) | 63% | 69 days | 3561 surgeries |
| 26 | [Broome Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/broome-hospital/) | 61% | 78 days | 222 surgeries |
| 27 | [Carnarvon Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/carnarvon-hospital/) | 57% | 65 days | 14 surgeries |
| 28 | [Fiona Stanley Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/fiona-stanley-hospital/) | 56% | 78 days | 2298 surgeries |
| 29 | [Fremantle Hospital and Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/fremantle-hospital-and-health-service/) | 52% | 87 days | 3113 surgeries |
| 29 | [Rockingham General Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/rockingham-general-hospital/) | 52% | 89 days | 960 surgeries |
| unranked | [Bridgetown Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bridgetown-hospital/) | not published | not published | 9 surgeries |
| unranked | [Margaret River Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/margaret-river-hospital/) | not published | not published | 5 surgeries |
| unranked | [Warren Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/warren-hospital/) | not published | not published | 7 surgeries |

## 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-2/), 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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