Surgery Waits

Female sterilisation waiting time at Kalgoorlie Health Campus

The median wait for female sterilisation at this public hospital in the Piccadilly area of Western Australia was 112 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
112 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 10 days in 2016–17 to 112 days in 2024–25 — up 1020% — while the national median rose from 74 days to 129 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 553 km away, at 36 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Female sterilisation, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Kalgoorlie Health Campus112 daysnot published10 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)96 days5.9%272 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for female sterilisation by financial year at Kalgoorlie Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Kalgoorlie Health Campus 112WA 96Australia 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 periodKalgoorlie Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17105174
2017–18225576
2018–19916578
2019–20747888
2020–2126682112
2021–2227199112
2022–237877102
2023–248080118
2024–2511296129

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

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