Female sterilisation waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
Half of patients at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service waited 114 days or less for female sterilisation in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). This public hospital is in the Fremantle area of Western Australia.
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
- 114 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 53 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 93 days in 2016–17 to 114 days in 2024–25 — up 23% — while the national median rose from 74 days to 129 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is King Edward Memorial Hospital, about 14 km away, at 63 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fremantle Hospital and Health Service | 114 days | not published | 28 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 96 days | 5.9% | 272 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 129 days | 11.5% | 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.
King Edward Memorial Hospital, WA · about 14 km away: 63 days
Osborne Park Hospital, WA · about 20 km away: 129 days
Rockingham General Hospital, WA · about 26 km away: 266 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, WA · about 27 km away: 113 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public), WA · about 36 km away: 36 days
Peel Health Campus, WA · about 53 km away: 14 days
Bunbury Hospital, WA · about 146 km away: 115 days
Busselton Health Campus, WA · about 182 km away: 110 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Fremantle Hospital and Health Service (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 93 | 51 | 74 |
| 2017–18 | 92 | 55 | 76 |
| 2018–19 | 112 | 65 | 78 |
| 2019–20 | 89 | 78 | 88 |
| 2020–21 | 63 | 82 | 112 |
| 2021–22 | 48 | 99 | 112 |
| 2022–23 | 49 | 77 | 102 |
| 2023–24 | 72 | 80 | 118 |
| 2024–25 | 114 | 96 | 129 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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