Female sterilisation waiting time at King Edward Memorial 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: 63 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 50 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.0%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 53 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.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Female sterilisation, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
King Edward Memorial Hospital	63 days	2.0%	50 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.

Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 7 km away129 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 14 km away114 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 24 km away36 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 28 km away113 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 38 km away266 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 65 km away14 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 158 km away115 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 195 km away110 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

King Edward Memorial 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	King Edward Memorial Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	49	51	74
2017–18	28	55	76
2018–19	48	65	78
2019–20	65	78	88
2020–21	113	82	112
2021–22	90	99	112
2022–23	69	77	102
2023–24	55	80	118
2024–25	63	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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