Hysterectomy waiting time at Blackburn Public Surgical Centre

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Blackburn South area of Victoria, 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: 80 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 62 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 54 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 226 days in 2022–23 to 80 days in 2024–25 — down 65% — while the national median fell from 84 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Box Hill Hospital, about 4 km away, at 29 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.4%.

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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
Blackburn Public Surgical Centre	80 days	0.0%	62 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.

Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 4 km away29 days
Mercy Hospital for WomenVIC · about 12 km away32 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 13 km away51 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 16 km away98 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 17 km away141 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 18 km away8 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 18 km away28 days
Sandringham MonashVIC · about 19 km away97 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	Blackburn Public Surgical Centre (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	57	53
2012–13	not reported for this period	60	53
2013–14	not reported for this period	63	52
2014–15	not reported for this period	51	55
2015–16	not reported for this period	48	52
2016–17	not reported for this period	44	55
2017–18	not reported for this period	45	57
2018–19	not reported for this period	49	61
2019–20	not reported for this period	48	63
2020–21	not reported for this period	70	80
2021–22	not reported for this period	50	74
2022–23	226	78	84
2023–24	86	66	77
2024–25	80	50	74

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

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