Surgery Waits

Hysterectomy waiting time at Wollongong Hospital

Half of patients at Wollongong Hospital waited 196 days or less for hysterectomy in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)". This public hospital is in the Wollongong 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
196 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
70 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
17.1%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 106 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 350 days in 2011–12 to 196 days in 2024–25 — down 44% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St George Hospital NSW, about 56 km away, at 121 days. Here, 17.1% 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
Wollongong Hospital196 days17.1%70 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)99 days12.2%2971 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)74 days7.4%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) by financial year at Wollongong Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Wollongong Hospital 196NSW 99Australia 74
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Median wait in days for Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodWollongong Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–123505753
2012–133586053
2013–14615552
2014–15576055
2015–161046252
2016–17816455
2017–183286657
2018–192936961
2019–203227163
2020–213869680
2021–221418174
2022–2333610184
2023–243029677
2024–251969974

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

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