Surgery Waits

Hysterectomy waiting time at South East Regional Hospital

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Tarraganda area of New South Wales was 53 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
53 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 126 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 34 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 140 days in 2016–17 to 53 days in 2024–25 — down 62% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Moruya Hospital, about 89 km away, at 50 days.

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
South East Regional Hospital53 daysnot published12 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published80 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)99 days12.2%2971 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 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) by financial year at South East Regional Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays038751131502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25South East Regional Hospital 53NSW 99Australia 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 periodSouth East Regional Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period5753
2012–13not published6053
2013–14not published5552
2014–15not published6055
2015–16not published6252
2016–171406455
2017–18not published6657
2018–19not published6961
2019–20not reported for this period7163
2020–21not published9680
2021–22not reported for this period8174
2022–23not reported for this period10184
2023–24not published9677
2024–25539974

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

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