Curettage and evacuation of uterus waiting time at Wauchope District Memorial Hospital
Half of patients at Wauchope District Memorial Hospital waited 14 days or less for curettage and evacuation of uterus in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). This public hospital is in the Yippin Creek area of New South Wales.
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
- 14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 57 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 0.0%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 81 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 61 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 25 days in 2020–21 to 14 days in 2024–25 — down 44% — while the national median stayed at 4 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maitland Hospital, about 180 km away, at 3 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.1%.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wauchope District Memorial Hospital | 14 days | 0.0% | 57 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 7 days | 0.3% | 2397 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 4 days | 0.1% | 8500 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 4 days marks the national median.
Port Macquarie Base Hospital, NSW · about 14 km away: 21 days
Manning Hospital, NSW · about 57 km away: 48 days
Tamworth Hospital, NSW · about 177 km away: 41 days
Maitland Hospital, NSW · about 180 km away: 3 days
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 190 km away: 6 days
Belmont Hospital, NSW · about 202 km away: 3 days
Inverell Hospital, NSW · about 242 km away: 30 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Wauchope District Memorial Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Wauchope District Memorial Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | 3 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | 3 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 10 | 5 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | 10 | 4 |
| 2020–21 | 25 | 10 | 4 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 6 | 4 |
| 2022–23 | 21 | 6 | 4 |
| 2023–24 | 15 | 7 | 5 |
| 2024–25 | 14 | 7 | 4 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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