Hysterectomy waiting time at Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the North Melbourne area of Victoria was 28 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: 28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 424 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.4%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 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 58 days in 2011–12 to 28 days in 2024–25 — down 52% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, about 0 km away, at 8 days. Here, 1.4% 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
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]	28 days	1.4%	424 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	50 days	2.7%	2957 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	74 days	7.4%	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.

Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 0 km away8 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 9 km away64 days
Mercy Hospital for WomenVIC · about 10 km away32 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 13 km away34 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 15 km away29 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 17 km away51 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 17 km away59 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 18 km away80 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 Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	58	57	53
2012–13	63	60	53
2013–14	74	63	52
2014–15	40	51	55
2015–16	28	48	52
2016–17	32	44	55
2017–18	26	45	57
2018–19	27	49	61
2019–20	25	48	63
2020–21	28	70	80
2021–22	28	50	74
2022–23	28	78	84
2023–24	27	66	77
2024–25	28	50	74

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

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