Female sterilisation waiting time at Lyell McEwin 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: 355 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 48 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
Lyell McEwin Hospital	355 days	not published	12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	267 days	18.9%	350 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	41 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	77 days	3.7%	187 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.

Broken Hill HospitalNSW · about 405 km away98 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 560 km away5 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 645 km away145 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 658 km away114 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 663 km away77 days
Griffith Base HospitalNSW · about 678 km away223 days
Cranbourne Integrated Care CentreVIC · about 700 km away279 days
Northeast Health WangarattaVIC · about 714 km away29 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

Lyell McEwin Hospital
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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	Lyell McEwin Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	45	47	74
2017–18	50	56	76
2018–19	49	56	78
2019–20	62	60	88
2020–21	70	70	112
2021–22	72	71	112
2022–23	55	59	102
2023–24	89	not published	118
2024–25	355	not published	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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