Surgery Waits

Endometrial ablation waiting time at Blue Mountains Hospital

The median wait for endometrial ablation at this public hospital in the Leura area of New South Wales was 298 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
298 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
28 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 27 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 26 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 74 days in 2022–23 to 298 days in 2024–25 — up 303% — while the national median fell from 74 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 37 km away, at 77 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Endometrial ablation, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Blue Mountains Hospital298 daysnot published28 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)77 days6.5%430 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)71 days4.9%878 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 71 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for endometrial ablation by financial year at Blue Mountains Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Blue Mountains Hospital 298NSW 77Australia 71
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Endometrial ablation, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBlue Mountains Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published5754
2017–18not published5759
2018–19not published5659
2019–20not reported for this period6864
2020–21not published7582
2021–22not published7784
2022–23746274
2023–241376258
2024–252987771

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

All surgery at Blue Mountains Hospital · Endometrial ablation across Australia · Endometrial ablation in New South Wales