Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

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: 119 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 26 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 19 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
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	119 days	not published	26 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 5 km away95 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 8 km away91 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away63 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 15 km away38 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away433 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away248 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 65 km away83 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 196 km away202 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
WA
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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	Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	369	62	128
2017–18	308	78	152
2018–19	240	83	125
2019–20	369	98	155
2020–21	144	150	230
2021–22	185	154	238
2022–23	212	187	241
2023–24	217	124	191
2024–25	119	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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