Surgery Waits

Hysterectomy waiting time at Albany Hospital

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia was 389 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
389 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
20 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 126 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 38 days in 2011–12 to 389 days in 2024–25 — up 924% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Narrogin Hospital, about 240 km away, at 124 days.

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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
Albany Hospital389 daysnot published20 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)64 days5.3%1043 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 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) by financial year at Albany Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Albany Hospital 389WA 64Australia 74
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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 periodAlbany Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12383953
2012–13363553
2013–14983352
2014–15643855
2015–16793652
2016–17804355
2017–18654857
2018–19525161
2019–20485263
2020–21597380
2021–221016974
2022–233525984
2023–242395677
2024–253896474

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

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