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.

Preview of Emergency Department (ED) figures at Saturday, 25 March 2023 07:22 PM
Hospital Triage 4 patients
average waiting time
(minutes)
Number of
patients waiting
to be seen in ED
Total patients
in ED
Armadale Hospital 113 12 45
Fiona Stanley Hospital 71 14 75
Joondalup Health Campus 85 28 90
King Edward Memorial Hospital For Women 192 2 7
Peel Health Campus 36 13 47
Perth Children's Hospital 9 4 32
Rockingham General Hospital 41 6 27
Royal Perth Hospital 79 13 44
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 84 14 53
St John of God Midland Public Hospital 59 12 55
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.