Surgery Waits

Female sterilisation waiting time at North Canberra Hospital

The median wait for female sterilisation at this public hospital in the Bruce area of Australian Capital Territory was 109 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
109 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 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 244 km away, at 23 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
North Canberra Hospital109 daysnot published10 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)267 days18.9%350 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)77 days3.7%187 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 North Canberra Hospital, compared with Australian Capital Territory and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25North Canberra Hospital 109Australia 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 periodNorth Canberra Hospital (days)ACT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this periodnot published74
2017–18not reported for this periodnot published76
2018–19not reported for this periodnot published78
2019–20not reported for this periodnot published88
2020–21not reported for this periodnot published112
2021–22not reported for this periodnot published112
2022–23not reported for this periodnot published102
2023–24not publishednot published118
2024–25109not published129

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

All surgery at North Canberra Hospital · Female sterilisation across Australia · Female sterilisation in Australian Capital Territory