Muscle or tendon length - change of waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital
The median wait for muscle or tendon length - change of at this public hospital in the Crawley area of Western Australia was 175 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
- 175 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 32 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 7 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 174 days in 2018–19 to 175 days in 2024–25 — up 1% — while the national median rose from 77 days to 89 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, about 5 km away, at 4 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perth Children's Hospital | 175 days | not published | 32 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 89 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 89 days | 11.8% | 439 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
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
- Perth Children's Hospital
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Perth Children's Hospital (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not published | 69 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not published | 75 |
| 2018–19 | 174 | not published | 77 |
| 2019–20 | 93 | not published | 75 |
| 2020–21 | 149 | not published | 88 |
| 2021–22 | 131 | not published | 85 |
| 2022–23 | 165 | not published | 92 |
| 2023–24 | 187 | 71 | 103 |
| 2024–25 | 175 | not published | 89 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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