Hysterectomy waiting time at Albany Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 389 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 20 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 126 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 38 days in 2011–12 to 389 days in 2024–25 — up 924% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Narrogin Hospital, about 240 km away, at 124 days.

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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
Albany Hospital	389 days	not published	20 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	64 days	5.3%	1043 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.

Narrogin HospitalWA · about 240 km away124 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 276 km away112 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 339 km away16 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 360 km away146 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 364 km away101 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 378 km away109 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 383 km away67 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 388 km away209 days

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

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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	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	38	39	53
2012–13	36	35	53
2013–14	98	33	52
2014–15	64	38	55
2015–16	79	36	52
2016–17	80	43	55
2017–18	65	48	57
2018–19	52	51	61
2019–20	48	52	63
2020–21	59	73	80
2021–22	101	69	74
2022–23	352	59	84
2023–24	239	56	77
2024–25	389	64	74

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

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