Hon Steve Martin asks the Minister for Health about median wait times for elective surgeries across urgency categories 1, 2, and 3 as of June 30th for the years 2021-2024. The answer is provided in tabular form and incorporated into Hansard.

AnsweredQoN 240Legislative Assembly
Asked
27 May 2025
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Elective surgery—Waitlists
240. Hon Steve Martin to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Minister for Health:
I refer to elective
surgery wait times in WA.
(1) What were the median wait times for elective
surgeries for each urgency category—categories 1, 2 and 3—as at
30 June for the following years:
(a) 2021;
(b) 2022;
(c) 2023; and
(d) 2024?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the honourable
member for some notice of the question. The answer provided by the Minister for
Health is in tabular form. I therefore seek leave to incorporate the answer
into Hansard .
Leave granted for
the following material to be incorporated.
1(a)-(d) The
median wait times (measured in days) for elective surgeries for each urgency
category (Categories 1, 2, and 3) as at 30 June are as follows:
On the Elective Surgery Wait List as at:
Urgency Category
1
2
3
30 June 2021
13
43
125
30 June 2022
14
55
202
30 June 2023
11
53
143
30 June 2024
13
52
137

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