Hysterectomy waiting time at Mercy Hospital for Women

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Eaglemont area of Victoria was 32 days in 2024–25.

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: 32 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 333 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 10.8%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 126 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 30 days in 2011–12 to 32 days in 2024–25 — up 7% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Box Hill Hospital, about 8 km away, at 29 days. Here, 10.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.4%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" 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 Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Mercy Hospital for Women	32 days	10.8%	333 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	50 days	2.7%	2957 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	74 days	7.4%	9163 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 74 days marks the national median.

Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 8 km away29 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 10 km away8 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 10 km away28 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 12 km away80 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away59 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 18 km away51 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 19 km away64 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 21 km away34 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Mercy Hospital for Women (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	30	57	53
2012–13	35	60	53
2013–14	36	63	52
2014–15	32	51	55
2015–16	44	48	52
2016–17	35	44	55
2017–18	44	45	57
2018–19	45	49	61
2019–20	48	48	63
2020–21	58	70	80
2021–22	49	50	74
2022–23	48	78	84
2023–24	44	66	77
2024–25	32	50	74

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

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