Surgery Waits

Fundoplication waiting time at Albany Hospital

The median wait for fundoplication at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia was 157 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
157 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
36 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 27 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 116 days in 2019–20 to 157 days in 2024–25 — up 35% — while the national median rose from 86 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, about 364 km away, at 119 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Fundoplication, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Albany Hospital157 daysnot published36 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published92 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)90 days8.0%802 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for fundoplication by financial year at Albany Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Albany Hospital 157WA 288Australia 90
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Fundoplication, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlbany Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this periodnot published81
2017–18not reported for this periodnot published83
2018–19not reported for this periodnot published82
2019–20116not published86
2020–21370288104
2021–22290not published106
2022–23173not published133
2023–24130not published104
2024–25157not published90

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

All surgery at Albany Hospital · Fundoplication across Australia · Fundoplication in Western Australia