Hysterectomy waiting time at King Edward Memorial Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Subiaco 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: 38 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 377 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.1%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 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2011–12 (38 days) — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peel Health Campus, about 65 km away, at 16 days. Here, 1.1% 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
King Edward Memorial Hospital	38 days	1.1%	377 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.

Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 7 km away105 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 14 km away67 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 14 km away109 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 19 km away209 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 24 km away42 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 28 km away101 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 38 km away146 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 65 km away16 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	King Edward Memorial Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	38	39	53
2012–13	34	35	53
2013–14	28	33	52
2014–15	34	38	55
2015–16	30	36	52
2016–17	28	43	55
2017–18	27	48	57
2018–19	31	51	61
2019–20	28	52	63
2020–21	42	73	80
2021–22	34	69	74
2022–23	31	59	84
2023–24	25	56	77
2024–25	38	64	74

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

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