Surgery Waits

Ovary and fallopian tube surgery waiting time at Grafton Base Hospital

Half of patients at Grafton Base Hospital waited 71 days or less for ovary and fallopian tube surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy". This public hospital is in the Grafton 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
71 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
16 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 100 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 55 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 26 days in 2016–17 to 71 days in 2024–25 — up 173% — while the national median rose from 41 days to 56 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Tweed Valley Hospital, about 177 km away, at 59 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy" 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 Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Grafton Base Hospital71 daysnot published16 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)71 days5.3%1262 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)59 days1.6%1130 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)56 days2.4%4989 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 56 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 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. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy by financial year at Grafton Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Grafton Base Hospital 71NSW 71Australia 56
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Median wait in days for Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGrafton Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17264941
2017–18355143
2018–19not published5348
2019–20not published5950
2020–21not published7164
2021–22not published6963
2022–23not published8269
2023–24306357
2024–25717156

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

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