Endometrial ablation waiting time at Mercy Hospital for Women

The median wait for endometrial ablation at this public hospital in the Eaglemont area of Victoria was 283 days in 2024–25.

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: 283 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 27 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 76 days in 2016–17 to 283 days in 2024–25 — up 272% — while the national median rose from 54 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville], about 10 km away, at 84 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Endometrial ablation, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Mercy Hospital for Women	283 days	not published	12 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	52 days	2.1%	287 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	71 days	4.9%	878 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 71 days marks the national median.

Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 10 km away84 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away46 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 41 km away141 days
Cranbourne Integrated Care CentreVIC · about 44 km away144 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 45 km away35 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 105 km away34 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 109 km away25 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 131 km away49 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Endometrial ablation, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Mercy Hospital for Women (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	76	44	54
2017–18	172	49	59
2018–19	60	52	59
2019–20	75	60	64
2020–21	99	111	82
2021–22	361	98	84
2022–23	396	95	74
2023–24	361	50	58
2024–25	283	52	71

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

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