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 Thursday, 19 September 2024 12:55 PM
Hospital Triage 4 patients
average waiting time
(minutes)
Number of
patients waiting
to be seen in ED
Total patients
in ED
Armadale Hospital 69 18 70
Fiona Stanley Hospital 81 35 102
Joondalup Health Campus 181 42 120
King Edward Memorial Hospital For Women 0 0 6
Peel Health Campus 69 6 51
Perth Children's Hospital 76 16 53
Rockingham General Hospital 95 21 58
Royal Perth Hospital 43 7 77
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 43 12 86
St John of God Midland Public Hospital 122 27 84
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.