Hysterectomy waiting time at Mount Barker District Soldiers' 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 Mount Barker area of South 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: 193 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 126 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 104 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 44 days in 2011–12 to 193 days in 2024–25 — up 339% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 28 km away, at 65 days. Here, 2.0% 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
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital	193 days	2.0%	50 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	80 days	9.3%	819 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.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 28 km away65 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 31 km away106 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 31 km away21 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 38 km away112 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 42 km away166 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 55 km away103 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	Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	44	40	53
2012–13	32	42	53
2013–14	30	47	52
2014–15	43	46	55
2015–16	10	45	52
2016–17	9	37	55
2017–18	9	50	57
2018–19	28	56	61
2019–20	49	57	63
2020–21	199	78	80
2021–22	224	75	74
2022–23	183	70	84
2023–24	166	64	77
2024–25	193	80	74

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

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