Surgery Waits

Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Joondalup Health Campus (Public)

The median wait for pterygium - excision of at this public hospital in the Joondalup area of Western Australia was 248 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
248 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
21 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 38 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 20 days in 2016–17 to 248 days in 2024–25 — up 1140% — while the national median rose from 128 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Osborne Park Hospital, about 17 km away, at 63 days.

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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
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)248 daysnot published21 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 Joondalup Health Campus (Public), compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 248WA 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 periodJoondalup Health Campus (Public) (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–172062128
2017–182978152
2018–19not published83125
2019–204798155
2020–21186150230
2021–22not published154238
2022–23192187241
2023–24134124191
2024–25248140197

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

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