Dilatation and curettage waiting time at Mercy Hospital for Women

Median wait, long waits and volumes for dilatation and curettage — published by the source as “Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage” — at this public hospital in the Eaglemont area of Victoria, 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: 15 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 776 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 4.5%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 158 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.

The median wait here has fallen from 25 days in 2016–17 to 15 days in 2024–25 — down 40% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 28 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 4.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.9%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Mercy Hospital for Women	15 days	4.5%	776 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.5%	11778 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.9%	36667 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 8 km away20 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 10 km away21 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 12 km away22 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away20 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 18 km away18 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 19 km away15 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 21 km away17 days
Sandringham MonashVIC · about 23 km away96 days

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

How the wait has changed

Mercy Hospital for Women
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Mercy Hospital for Women (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	25	17	23
2017–18	26	18	26
2018–19	28	19	27
2019–20	27	20	28
2020–21	26	20	29
2021–22	23	20	27
2022–23	23	22	28
2023–24	22	21	28
2024–25	15	20	28

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

All surgery at Mercy Hospital for Women · Dilatation and curettage across Australia · Dilatation and curettage in Victoria