Surgery Waits

Category 3 (non-urgent) waiting times in Western Australia

Of the 32 public hospitals that published a figure for 2024–25, the share treated on time ranged from 100% at Bridgetown Hospital down to 38% at Fiona Stanley Hospital.

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

Category 3 (non-urgent) means surgery is recommended within 365 days of being placed on the waiting list. Surgery for a condition causing minimal pain, dysfunction or disability, and unlikely to deteriorate quickly. The table ranks Western Australia's public hospitals by the share of non-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 3 (non-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 Bridgetown Hospital 100% 56 days 13 surgeries
1 Collie Hospital 100% 87 days 10 surgeries
1 Karratha Health Campus 100% 70 days 172 surgeries
1 Margaret River Hospital 100% 36 days 28 surgeries
1 Northam Hospital 100% 29 days 230 surgeries
6 Esperance Hospital 99% 106 days 443 surgeries
6 Kalgoorlie Health Campus 99% 210 days 327 surgeries
6 Narrogin Hospital 99% 95 days 220 surgeries
9 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 98% 130 days 1527 surgeries
9 Peel Health Campus 98% 28 days 228 surgeries
9 Warren Hospital 98% 78 days 62 surgeries
12 King Edward Memorial Hospital 97% 115 days 525 surgeries
13 Bentley Health Service 96% 98 days 2423 surgeries
13 Busselton Health Campus 96% 115 days 2732 surgeries
13 Hedland Health Campus 96% 147 days 164 surgeries
13 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 96% 75 days 4708 surgeries
13 Merredin Hospital 96% 108 days 28 surgeries
18 Geraldton Hospital 94% 121 days 1374 surgeries
19 Derby Hospital 93% 118 days 121 surgeries
20 Kununurra Hospital 89% 290 days 151 surgeries
21 Bunbury Hospital 88% 127 days 1001 surgeries
21 Osborne Park Hospital 88% 146 days 1758 surgeries
23 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 87% 51 days 2370 surgeries
24 Broome Hospital 83% 208 days 376 surgeries
25 Rockingham General Hospital 82% 193 days 744 surgeries
26 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 75% 176 days 1300 surgeries
27 Katanning Hospital 72% 356 days 65 surgeries
28 Albany Hospital 71% 335 days 969 surgeries
29 Perth Children's Hospital 62% 278 days 1651 surgeries
30 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 61% 311 days 1273 surgeries
31 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 60% 266 days 1865 surgeries
32 Fiona Stanley Hospital 38% 448 days 643 surgeries
unranked Carnarvon 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.