Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Esperance Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Esperance area of Western Australia was 140 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
140 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
24 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 150 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 119 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 130 days in 2016–17 to 140 days in 2024–25 — up 8% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Kalgoorlie Health Campus, about 349 km away, at 56 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Esperance Hospital140 daysnot published24 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)75 days5.1%1045 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days7.1%8779 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 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 arthroscopy by financial year at Esperance Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Esperance Hospital 140WA 75Australia 78
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodEsperance Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–171304768
2017–18926072
2018–191546675
2019–201365976
2020–21857089
2021–221127585
2022–23918286
2023–241117478
2024–251407578

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

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