Rotator cuff repair waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

Median wait, long waits and volumes for rotator cuff repair — published by the source as “Rotator cuff - repair of” — at this public hospital in the Perth 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: 72 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 40 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 79 days in 2016–17 to 72 days in 2024–25 — down 9% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 111 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, about 16 km away, at 64 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Rotator cuff - repair of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	72 days	not published	12 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	105 days	3.5%	198 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	111 days	12.9%	1144 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 111 days marks the national median.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 5 km away83 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away83 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 15 km away196 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away64 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away108 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 196 km away137 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 Rotator cuff - repair 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	79	67	103
2017–18	54	64	104
2018–19	55	83	127
2019–20	47	74	123
2020–21	39	89	203
2021–22	not published	not published	151
2022–23	not published	113	193
2023–24	85	101	150
2024–25	72	105	111

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

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