Surgery Waits

Category 2 (semi-urgent) waiting times in Western Australia

Of the 30 public hospitals that published a figure for 2024–25, the share treated on time ranged from 100% at Collie Hospital down to 52% at Rockingham General Hospital.

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

Category 2 (semi-urgent) means surgery is recommended within 90 days of being placed on the waiting list. Surgery for a condition causing pain, dysfunction or disability, but unlikely to deteriorate quickly. The table ranks Western Australia's public hospitals by the share of semi-urgent patients treated within that time in 2024–25.

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures.

Category 2 (semi-urgent) planned surgery at Western Australia public hospitals, 2024–25, ranked by the share treated within the recommended time — highest first. Hospitals with the same figure share a rank; a hospital with no published figure is listed unranked. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Treated on time Median wait Surgeries
1 Collie Hospital 100% 24 days 10 surgeries
2 Kalgoorlie Health Campus 98% 45 days 332 surgeries
3 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 96% 30 days 895 surgeries
4 Hedland Health Campus 95% 32 days 217 surgeries
5 Karratha Health Campus 93% 41 days 226 surgeries
6 Northam Hospital 91% 29 days 43 surgeries
7 Esperance Hospital 89% 53 days 117 surgeries
8 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 88% 48 days 1267 surgeries
8 Geraldton Hospital 88% 49 days 661 surgeries
8 Katanning Hospital 88% 46 days 68 surgeries
11 King Edward Memorial Hospital 87% 48 days 750 surgeries
12 Peel Health Campus 86% 36 days 2258 surgeries
13 Narrogin Hospital 85% 56 days 100 surgeries
14 Merredin Hospital 81% 37 days 37 surgeries
15 Bunbury Hospital 77% 52 days 833 surgeries
15 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 77% 42 days 2957 surgeries
17 Bentley Health Service 75% 51 days 1413 surgeries
17 Busselton Health Campus 75% 51 days 570 surgeries
19 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 73% 45 days 971 surgeries
20 Osborne Park Hospital 71% 55 days 1618 surgeries
21 Albany Hospital 70% 76 days 1531 surgeries
21 Derby Hospital 70% 62 days 70 surgeries
23 Kununurra Hospital 68% 80 days 91 surgeries
24 Perth Children's Hospital 66% 72 days 3050 surgeries
25 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 63% 69 days 3561 surgeries
26 Broome Hospital 61% 78 days 222 surgeries
27 Carnarvon Hospital 57% 65 days 14 surgeries
28 Fiona Stanley Hospital 56% 78 days 2298 surgeries
29 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 52% 87 days 3113 surgeries
29 Rockingham General Hospital 52% 89 days 960 surgeries
unranked Bridgetown Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Margaret River Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Warren 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.

Compare with every state's hospitals, see Western Australia's waiting times by surgery, or start from what the urgency categories mean.