Hysterectomy waiting time at North West Regional Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Park Grove area of Tasmania, 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: 179 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 57 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 19.3%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 100 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 96 days in 2011–12 to 179 days in 2024–25 — up 86% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Launceston General Hospital, about 114 km away, at 123 days. Here, 19.3% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.4%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

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
North West Regional Hospital	179 days	19.3%	57 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	77 days	6.7%	298 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	50 days	2.7%	2957 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.

Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 114 km away123 days
Royal Hobart HospitalTAS · about 236 km away41 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 272 km away53 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 319 km away78 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 320 km away47 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 328 km away38 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 329 km away34 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 337 km away123 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	North West Regional Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	96	53	53
2012–13	85	70	53
2013–14	86	71	52
2014–15	141	86	55
2015–16	78	110	52
2016–17	98	77	55
2017–18	67	62	57
2018–19	102	134	61
2019–20	113	164	63
2020–21	156	121	80
2021–22	181	174	74
2022–23	186	98	84
2023–24	199	65	77
2024–25	179	77	74

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

All surgery at North West Regional Hospital · Hysterectomy across Australia · Hysterectomy in Tasmania