Surgery Waits

Female sterilisation waiting time at Broken Hill Hospital

The median wait for female sterilisation at this public hospital in the Silverton area of New South Wales was 98 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
98 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 53 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 16 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital], about 661 km away, at 5 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Female sterilisation" 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 Female sterilisation, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Broken Hill Hospital98 daysnot published13 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)267 days18.9%350 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published41 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)77 days3.7%187 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)129 days11.5%1388 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 129 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for female sterilisation by financial year at Broken Hill Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Broken Hill Hospital 98NSW 267Australia 129
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Female sterilisation, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBroken Hill Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published12574
2017–18not reported for this period14776
2018–19not published11478
2019–20not published13488
2020–21not published243112
2021–22not reported for this period192112
2022–23not published165102
2023–24not published213118
2024–2598267129

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

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