Surgery Waits

Female sterilisation waiting time at Liverpool Hospital

The median wait for female sterilisation at this public hospital in the Warwick Farm area of New South Wales was 243 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
243 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
43 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 38 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 203 days in 2016–17 to 243 days in 2024–25 — up 20% — while the national median rose from 74 days to 129 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, about 8 km away, at 223 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
Liverpool Hospital243 daysnot published43 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)267 days18.9%350 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 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 Liverpool Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Liverpool Hospital 243NSW 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 periodLiverpool Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1720312574
2017–187614776
2018–1912511478
2019–2010613488
2020–21248243112
2021–22141192112
2022–23161165102
2023–24347213118
2024–25243267129

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

All surgery at Liverpool Hospital · Female sterilisation across Australia · Female sterilisation in New South Wales