Surgery Waits

Curettage and evacuation of uterus waiting time at Alice Springs Hospital

The median wait for curettage and evacuation of uterus at this public hospital in the Alice Springs area of Northern Territory was 3 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
3 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
72 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 81 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 5 days in 2016–17 to 3 days in 2024–25 — down 40% — while the national median rose from 3 days to 4 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.1%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Curettage and evacuation of uterus, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Alice Springs Hospital3 days0.0%72 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)1 day0.0%233 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)4 days0.1%8500 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for curettage and evacuation of uterus by financial year at Alice Springs Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays024682016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Alice Springs Hospital 3NT 1Australia 4
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Curettage and evacuation of uterus, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlice Springs Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17563
2017–18533
2018–19525
2019–20534
2020–21524
2021–22514
2022–23414
2023–24215
2024–25314

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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