Hysterectomy waiting time at Tamworth Hospital

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the North Tamworth area of New South Wales was 246 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: 246 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 80 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 7.5%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 110 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 83 days in 2011–12 to 246 days in 2024–25 — up 196% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Manning Hospital, about 172 km away, at 226 days. Here, 7.5% 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
Tamworth Hospital	246 days	7.5%	80 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	99 days	12.2%	2971 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.

Manning HospitalNSW · about 172 km away226 days
Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 190 km away126 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 193 km away270 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 218 km away34 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 224 km away309 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 248 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	Tamworth Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	83	57	53
2012–13	91	60	53
2013–14	88	55	52
2014–15	91	60	55
2015–16	124	62	52
2016–17	86	64	55
2017–18	92	66	57
2018–19	143	69	61
2019–20	180	71	63
2020–21	285	96	80
2021–22	328	81	74
2022–23	203	101	84
2023–24	238	96	77
2024–25	246	99	74

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

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