Hysterectomy waiting time at Box Hill Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Box Hill 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: 29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 154 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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 97 days in 2011–12 to 29 days in 2024–25 — down 70% — 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 14 km away, at 8 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
Box Hill Hospital	29 days	0.0%	154 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.

Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 4 km away80 days
Mercy Hospital for WomenVIC · about 8 km away32 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 13 km away51 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 14 km away8 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 15 km away28 days
Sandringham MonashVIC · about 19 km away97 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 20 km away98 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 20 km away59 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	Box Hill Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	97	57	53
2012–13	42	60	53
2013–14	69	63	52
2014–15	68	51	55
2015–16	41	48	52
2016–17	35	44	55
2017–18	51	45	57
2018–19	30	49	61
2019–20	26	48	63
2020–21	27	70	80
2021–22	21	50	74
2022–23	28	78	84
2023–24	58	66	77
2024–25	29	50	74

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

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