Surgery Waits

Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Busselton Health Campus

The median wait for pterygium - excision of at this public hospital in the West Busselton area of Western Australia was 202 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
202 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
68 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
1.5%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 29 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 41 days in 2016–17 to 202 days in 2024–25 — up 393% — while the national median rose from 128 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peel Health Campus, about 131 km away, at 83 days. Here, 1.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 15.7%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pterygium - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Busselton Health Campus202 days1.5%68 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)140 days11.1%621 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)197 days15.7%2442 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for pterygium - excision of by financial year at Busselton Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Busselton Health Campus 202WA 140Australia 197
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Pterygium - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBusselton Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–174162128
2017–184378152
2018–195083125
2019–204898155
2020–2191150230
2021–2268154238
2022–23165187241
2023–24181124191
2024–25202140197

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

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