Discectomy waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Discectomy 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: 119 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 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 30 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 29 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 Discectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	119 days	not published	15 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	62 days	10.5%	105 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	41 days	4.5%	1400 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 41 days marks the national median.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 5 km away49 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away30 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 13 km away93 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away30 days

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

How the wait has changed

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Discectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	188	40	41
2017–18	97	53	42
2018–19	92	44	43
2019–20	51	68	49
2020–21	32	58	49
2021–22	98	59	49
2022–23	225	93	60
2023–24	106	51	48
2024–25	119	62	41

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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