Hysterectomy waiting time at Lachlan Health Service - Parkes

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Parkes area of New South Wales, 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: 287 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 19 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 126 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 113 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 30 days in 2011–12 to 287 days in 2024–25 — up 857% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bathurst Base Hospital, about 133 km away, at 185 days.

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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
Lachlan Health Service - Parkes	287 days	not published	19 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	99 days	12.2%	2971 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.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 88 km away349 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 110 km away354 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 133 km away185 days
Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 209 km away345 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 227 km away152 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 231 km away357 days
Griffith Base HospitalNSW · about 233 km away78 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 245 km away345 days

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

How the wait has changed

Lachlan Health Service - Parkes
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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	Lachlan Health Service - Parkes (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	30	57	53
2012–13	43	60	53
2013–14	51	55	52
2014–15	not published	60	55
2015–16	not published	62	52
2016–17	not published	64	55
2017–18	43	66	57
2018–19	not published	69	61
2019–20	90	71	63
2020–21	421	96	80
2021–22	not published	81	74
2022–23	not published	101	84
2023–24	204	96	77
2024–25	287	99	74

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

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