Hysterectomy waiting time at The Canberra Hospital

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Garran area of Australian Capital Territory was 168 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: 168 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 36 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 126 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 98 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 56 days in 2016–17 to 168 days in 2024–25 — up 200% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is North Canberra Hospital, about 10 km away, at 87 days.

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
The Canberra Hospital	168 days	not published	36 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	80 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	99 days	12.2%	2971 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.

North Canberra HospitalACT · about 10 km away87 days
Queanbeyan HospitalNSW · about 12 km away124 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 87 km away152 days
Cooma Hospital and Health ServiceNSW · about 100 km away72 days
Moruya HospitalNSW · about 107 km away50 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 146 km away356 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 160 km away357 days
South East Regional HospitalNSW · about 164 km away53 days

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

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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	The Canberra Hospital (days)	ACT (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	60	53
2012–13	not reported for this period	55	53
2013–14	not reported for this period	63	52
2014–15	not reported for this period	73	55
2015–16	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	52
2016–17	56	66	55
2017–18	43	66	57
2018–19	28	42	61
2019–20	54	66	63
2020–21	58	83	80
2021–22	91	91	74
2022–23	149	not published	84
2023–24	84	not published	77
2024–25	168	not published	74

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

All surgery at The Canberra Hospital · Hysterectomy across Australia · Hysterectomy in Australian Capital Territory