Squint surgery waiting time at Bunbury Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for squint surgery — published by the source as “Procedure for strabismus (squint repair)” — at this public hospital in the College Grove area of Western Australia, 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: 40 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 25 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 66 days in 2016–17 to 40 days in 2024–25 — down 39% — while the national median rose from 85 days to 155 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Procedure for strabismus (squint repair), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Bunbury Hospital	40 days	not published	10 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	183 days	8.9%	213 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	155 days	14.4%	1087 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

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

Busselton Health CampusWA · about 44 km away205 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 93 km away45 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 146 km away346 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 156 km away196 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 158 km away181 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 167 km away159 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Procedure for strabismus (squint repair), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Bunbury Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	66	98	85
2017–18	54	110	101
2018–19	76	125	123
2019–20	56	125	146
2020–21	84	264	168
2021–22	26	237	174
2022–23	59	322	212
2023–24	85	186	141
2024–25	40	183	155

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

All surgery at Bunbury Hospital · Squint surgery across Australia · Squint surgery in Western Australia