Surgery Waits

Squint surgery waiting times in Western Australia

Public hospitals in Western Australia ranked by their median wait for squint surgery, published by the source as "Procedure for strabismus (squint repair)".

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

13 public hospitals in Western Australia reported squint surgery in 2024–25. The state median was 183 days; the national median was 155 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Procedure for strabismus (squint repair)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

6 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 155 days marks the national median.

Procedure for strabismus (squint repair) in Western Australia public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Bunbury Hospital 40 days not published 10 surgeries
2 Peel Health Campus 45 days not published 15 surgeries
3 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 159 days not published 10 surgeries
4 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 181 days not published 10 surgeries
5 Perth Children's Hospital 196 days 2.5% 118 surgeries
6 Busselton Health Campus 205 days not published 10 surgeries
7 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 346 days not published 13 surgeries
unranked Albany Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Broome Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Geraldton Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Joondalup Health Campus (Public) not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Karratha Health Campus not published not published not published
unranked Osborne Park Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Western Australia.