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, 20 April 2024 10:00 PM
Hospital Triage 4 patients
average waiting time
(minutes)
Number of
patients waiting
to be seen in ED
Total patients
in ED
Armadale Hospital 40 12 51
Fiona Stanley Hospital 98 32 83
Joondalup Health Campus 171 27 92
King Edward Memorial Hospital For Women
Peel Health Campus 58 9 40
Perth Children's Hospital 85 15 42
Rockingham General Hospital 91 16 49
Royal Perth Hospital 61 11 45
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 134 6 59
St John of God Midland Public Hospital 164 21 63
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.