Female sterilisation waiting time at Geraldton Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Female sterilisation at this public hospital, 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: 69 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 14 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 53 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Female sterilisation, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Geraldton Hospital	69 days	not published	14 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	96 days	5.9%	272 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	129 days	11.5%	1388 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 129 days marks the national median.

Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 347 km away36 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 364 km away129 days
King Edward Memorial HospitalWA · about 371 km away63 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away114 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 396 km away113 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 406 km away266 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 431 km away14 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

Geraldton Hospital
WA
Australia

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Female sterilisation, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Geraldton Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	51	74
2017–18	96	55	76
2018–19	90	65	78
2019–20	not published	78	88
2020–21	86	82	112
2021–22	77	99	112
2022–23	125	77	102
2023–24	148	80	118
2024–25	69	96	129

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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