Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Albany Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Pterygium - excision of at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 327 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 14 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pterygium - excision of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Albany Hospital	327 days	not published	14 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	140 days	11.1%	621 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	197 days	15.7%	2442 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 days marks the national median.

Busselton Health CampusWA · about 281 km away202 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 339 km away83 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away91 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 383 km away433 days
Esperance HospitalWA · about 387 km away73 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 388 km away38 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 388 km away119 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 389 km away95 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Albany Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Pterygium - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	83	62	128
2017–18	79	78	152
2018–19	228	83	125
2019–20	213	98	155
2020–21	324	150	230
2021–22	355	154	238
2022–23	360	187	241
2023–24	313	124	191
2024–25	327	140	197

What is not here

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

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