Surgery Waits

Cleft lip and palate - repair of waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital

The median wait for cleft lip and palate - repair of at this public hospital in the Crawley area of Western Australia was 86 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
86 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
93 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
2.2%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 8 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 50 days in 2018–19 to 86 days in 2024–25 — up 72% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 80 days. Here, 2.2% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 4.5%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cleft lip and palate - repair of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Perth Children's Hospital86 days2.2%93 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published98 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)80 days4.5%597 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for cleft lip and palate - repair of by financial year at Perth Children's Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Perth Children's Hospital 86WA 103Australia 80
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cleft lip and palate - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodPerth Children's Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period3753
2017–18not publishednot published68
2018–19504978
2019–20293064
2020–2195not published71
2021–22717582
2022–239910389
2023–24115not published81
2024–2586not published80

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

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