Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

The median wait for acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression at this public hospital in the Perth area of Western Australia was 149 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 149 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 26 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 43 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 35 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 155 days in 2016–17 to 149 days in 2024–25 — down 4% — while the national median rose from 85 days to 92 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 5 km away, at 66 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	149 days	not published	26 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	90 days	3.0%	537 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	92 days	6.3%	1418 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 92 days marks the national median.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 5 km away66 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 8 km away71 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away112 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away93 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 25 km away104 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away48 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 39 km away141 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 65 km away26 days

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

How the wait has changed

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	155	73	85
2017–18	97	83	95
2018–19	47	75	98
2019–20	167	92	108
2020–21	not published	94	141
2021–22	not published	101	131
2022–23	221	112	154
2023–24	72	88	101
2024–25	149	90	92

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

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