Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) 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: 32 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 152 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 15 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 Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	32 days	0.0%	152 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	32 days	1.1%	566 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	26 days	2.6%	3742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 5 km away25 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away93 days
Geraldton HospitalWA · about 373 km away34 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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 Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), 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	15	28	19
2017–18	15	27	21
2018–19	13	25	22
2019–20	15	25	21
2020–21	15	24	19
2021–22	14	26	18
2022–23	21	34	24
2023–24	18	35	22
2024–25	32	32	26

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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