Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

Median wait, long waits and volumes for varicose vein surgery — published by the source as “Varicose veins treatment” — 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: 179 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 33 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 30 days in 2011–12 to 179 days in 2024–25 — up 497% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St John of God Midland Public Hospital, about 15 km away, at 14 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Varicose veins treatment, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	179 days	not published	11 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	106 days	8.0%	373 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	133 days	9.5%	3346 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 133 days marks the national median.

Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 8 km away181 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away253 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 15 km away14 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away96 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 25 km away78 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away30 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 158 km away198 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 196 km away181 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 Varicose veins treatment, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	30	66	103
2012–13	41	70	96
2013–14	64	83	97
2014–15	102	73	105
2015–16	not published	61	104
2016–17	not published	48	90
2017–18	71	51	101
2018–19	136	109	108
2019–20	124	107	129
2020–21	222	170	223
2021–22	103	114	208
2022–23	169	129	216
2023–24	196	158	189
2024–25	179	106	133

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

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