Hysterectomy waiting time at Blue Mountains Hospital

Half of patients at Blue Mountains Hospital waited 345 days or less for hysterectomy in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)". This public hospital is in the Leura area of New South Wales.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

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

Median wait: 345 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 74 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 23.0%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 126 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 120 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 14 days in 2011–12 to 345 days in 2024–25 — up 2364% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hawkesbury Hospital, about 47 km away, at 278 days. Here, 23.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.4%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Blue Mountains Hospital	345 days	23.0%	74 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	99 days	12.2%	2971 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	74 days	7.4%	9163 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 74 days marks the national median.

Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 37 km away: 345 days
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 47 km away: 278 days
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 56 km away: 205 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 57 km away: 106 days
Campbelltown Hospital, NSW · about 61 km away: 305 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 61 km away: 39 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 63 km away: 27 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 68 km away: 68 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Blue Mountains Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	14	57	53
2012–13	42	60	53
2013–14	64	55	52
2014–15	128	60	55
2015–16	121	62	52
2016–17	75	64	55
2017–18	95	66	57
2018–19	74	69	61
2019–20	78	71	63
2020–21	153	96	80
2021–22	202	81	74
2022–23	111	101	84
2023–24	176	96	77
2024–25	345	99	74

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

All surgery at Blue Mountains Hospital · Hysterectomy across Australia · Hysterectomy in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales