Surgery Waits

Female sterilisation waiting time at Maryborough Hospital

The median wait for female sterilisation at this public hospital in the Maryborough area of Queensland was 119 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
119 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
24 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 27 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2016–17 (119 days) — while the national median rose from 74 days to 129 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bundaberg Base Hospital, about 81 km away, at 114 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
Maryborough Hospital119 daysnot published24 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)151 days12.8%500 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for female sterilisation by financial year at Maryborough Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Maryborough Hospital 119QLD 151Australia 129
  • Maryborough Hospital
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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 periodMaryborough Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–171199174
2017–189713076
2018–1912813678
2019–2013410488
2020–2177133112
2021–22181187112
2022–23174131102
2023–24132168118
2024–25119151129

Queensland's quarterly figures for gynaecology

These are not figures for female sterilisation. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Maryborough.

Patients treated
59 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
100.0%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
79 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
2 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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