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title: "Category 3 (non-urgent) waiting times in Western Australia"
description: "Category 3 (non-urgent) planned surgery in Western Australia: the recommended maximum wait of 365 days, and each public hospital's on-time share for 2024–25."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-3/wa/"
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# Category 3 (non-urgent) waiting times in Western Australia

Of the 32 public hospitals that published a figure for 2024–25, the share treated on time ranged from **100%** at [Bridgetown Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bridgetown-hospital/) down to **38%** at [Fiona Stanley Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/fiona-stanley-hospital/).

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

**Category 3 (non-urgent)** means surgery is recommended within **365 days** of being placed on the waiting list. Surgery for a condition causing minimal pain, dysfunction or disability, and unlikely to deteriorate quickly. The table ranks Western Australia's public hospitals by the share of non-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 3 (non-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 | [Bridgetown Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bridgetown-hospital/) | 100% | 56 days | 13 surgeries |
| 1 | [Collie Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/collie-hospital/) | 100% | 87 days | 10 surgeries |
| 1 | [Karratha Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/karratha-health-campus/) | 100% | 70 days | 172 surgeries |
| 1 | [Margaret River Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/margaret-river-hospital/) | 100% | 36 days | 28 surgeries |
| 1 | [Northam Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/northam-hospital/) | 100% | 29 days | 230 surgeries |
| 6 | [Esperance Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/esperance-hospital/) | 99% | 106 days | 443 surgeries |
| 6 | [Kalgoorlie Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/kalgoorlie-health-campus/) | 99% | 210 days | 327 surgeries |
| 6 | [Narrogin Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/narrogin-hospital/) | 99% | 95 days | 220 surgeries |
| 9 | [Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/armadale-kelmscott-memorial-hospital/) | 98% | 130 days | 1527 surgeries |
| 9 | [Peel Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/peel-health-campus/) | 98% | 28 days | 228 surgeries |
| 9 | [Warren Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/warren-hospital/) | 98% | 78 days | 62 surgeries |
| 12 | [King Edward Memorial Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/king-edward-memorial-hospital/) | 97% | 115 days | 525 surgeries |
| 13 | [Bentley Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bentley-health-service/) | 96% | 98 days | 2423 surgeries |
| 13 | [Busselton Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/busselton-health-campus/) | 96% | 115 days | 2732 surgeries |
| 13 | [Hedland Health Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/hedland-health-campus/) | 96% | 147 days | 164 surgeries |
| 13 | [Joondalup Health Campus (Public)](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/joondalup-health-campus-public/) | 96% | 75 days | 4708 surgeries |
| 13 | [Merredin Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/merredin-hospital/) | 96% | 108 days | 28 surgeries |
| 18 | [Geraldton Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/geraldton-hospital/) | 94% | 121 days | 1374 surgeries |
| 19 | [Derby Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/derby-hospital/) | 93% | 118 days | 121 surgeries |
| 20 | [Kununurra Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/kununurra-hospital/) | 89% | 290 days | 151 surgeries |
| 21 | [Bunbury Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/bunbury-hospital/) | 88% | 127 days | 1001 surgeries |
| 21 | [Osborne Park Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/osborne-park-hospital/) | 88% | 146 days | 1758 surgeries |
| 23 | [St John of God Midland Public Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/st-john-of-god-midland-public-hospital/) | 87% | 51 days | 2370 surgeries |
| 24 | [Broome Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/broome-hospital/) | 83% | 208 days | 376 surgeries |
| 25 | [Rockingham General Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/rockingham-general-hospital/) | 82% | 193 days | 744 surgeries |
| 26 | [Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/sir-charles-gairdner-hospital/) | 75% | 176 days | 1300 surgeries |
| 27 | [Katanning Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/katanning-hospital/) | 72% | 356 days | 65 surgeries |
| 28 | [Albany Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/albany-hospital/) | 71% | 335 days | 969 surgeries |
| 29 | [Perth Children's Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/perth-childrens-hospital/) | 62% | 278 days | 1651 surgeries |
| 30 | [Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-perth-hospital-wellington-street-campus/) | 61% | 311 days | 1273 surgeries |
| 31 | [Fremantle Hospital and Health Service](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/fremantle-hospital-and-health-service/) | 60% | 266 days | 1865 surgeries |
| 32 | [Fiona Stanley Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/fiona-stanley-hospital/) | 38% | 448 days | 643 surgeries |
| unranked | [Carnarvon Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/carnarvon-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-3/), 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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