Surgery Waits

Female sterilisation waiting time at Northeast Health Wangaratta

The median wait for female sterilisation at this public hospital in the Wangaratta area of Victoria was 29 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
29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
17 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 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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
Northeast Health Wangaratta29 daysnot published17 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 Northeast Health Wangaratta, compared with Victoria and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Northeast Health Wangaratta 29VIC 77Australia 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 periodNortheast Health Wangaratta (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period3874
2017–18not reported for this period4076
2018–19not reported for this period5378
2019–20not reported for this period9288
2020–21not reported for this period163112
2021–22not reported for this periodnot published112
2022–23not reported for this period154102
2023–24not reported for this period145118
2024–252977129

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

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