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 Friday, 26 April 2024 09:55 PM
Hospital Triage 4 patients
average waiting time
(minutes)
Number of
patients waiting
to be seen in ED
Total patients
in ED
Armadale Hospital 76 18 45
Fiona Stanley Hospital 189 48 111
Joondalup Health Campus 101 18 93
King Edward Memorial Hospital For Women 80 4 9
Peel Health Campus 69 14 43
Perth Children's Hospital 116 23 48
Rockingham General Hospital 162 19 48
Royal Perth Hospital 100 29 64
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 102 7 63
St John of God Midland Public Hospital 139 23 70
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.