Surgery Waits

Female sterilisation waiting time at Busselton Health Campus

The median wait for female sterilisation at this public hospital in the West Busselton area of Western Australia was 110 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
110 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 53 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 39 days in 2016–17 to 110 days in 2024–25 — up 182% — while the national median rose from 74 days to 129 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peel Health Campus, about 131 km away, at 14 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Female sterilisation, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Busselton Health Campus110 daysnot published20 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)96 days5.9%272 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for female sterilisation by financial year at Busselton Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Busselton Health Campus 110WA 96Australia 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 periodBusselton Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17395174
2017–18305576
2018–19396578
2019–20467888
2020–217382112
2021–229899112
2022–239077102
2023–248580118
2024–2511096129

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

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