Surgery Waits

Female sterilisation waiting time at Geraldton Hospital

The median wait for female sterilisation at this public hospital in the Beachlands area of Western Australia was 69 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
69 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
14 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 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 96 days in 2017–18 to 69 days in 2024–25 — down 28% — while the national median rose from 76 days to 129 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 347 km away, at 36 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
Geraldton Hospital69 daysnot published14 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 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 female sterilisation by financial year at Geraldton Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Geraldton Hospital 69WA 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 periodGeraldton Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published5174
2017–18965576
2018–19906578
2019–20not published7888
2020–218682112
2021–227799112
2022–2312577102
2023–2414880118
2024–256996129

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

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