Emergency Department data
Emergency department live activity
The table below provides an up-to-date view of the status of the emergency department in each of the metropolitan hospitals that contains an emergency department.
| Hospital |
Triage 4 patients
average waiting time
(minutes) |
Number of
patients waiting
to be seen in ED |
Total patients
in ED |
| Armadale Hospital |
178 |
20 |
41 |
| Fiona Stanley Hospital |
158 |
19 |
80 |
| Joondalup Health Campus |
77 |
7 |
59 |
| King Edward Memorial Hospital For Women |
0 |
2 |
4 |
| Peel Health Campus |
0 |
0 |
26 |
| Perth Children's Hospital |
46 |
8 |
34 |
| Rockingham General Hospital |
61 |
3 |
22 |
| Royal Perth Hospital |
172 |
20 |
58 |
| Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital |
172 |
5 |
40 |
| St John of God Midland Public Hospital |
210 |
15 |
51 |
Information provided here serves as a guide only. Patients are advised they should attend their nearest emergency department if they require urgent medical attention.
Triage categories are allocated to each patient based on an assessment of their presenting conditions, generally by the triage nurse, with triage 1 being the most urgent and triage 5 being the least urgent. The average waiting time that is displayed on the web page is for patients who have been assessed as triage 4, since that is the most frequently allocated triage category.
Patients are always seen in order of clinical urgency.
For further information about triage categories, visit
Australasian College of Emergency Medicine website.