Hysterectomy waiting time at Orange Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Spring Creek 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: 349 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 52 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 11.5%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 126 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 122 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 57 days in 2011–12 to 349 days in 2024–25 — up 512% — 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 46 km away, at 185 days. Here, 11.5% 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
Orange Health Service	349 days	11.5%	52 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.

Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 46 km away185 days
Lachlan Health Service - ParkesNSW · about 88 km away287 days
Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 122 km away345 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 128 km away354 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 158 km away345 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 163 km away278 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 169 km away152 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 177 km away205 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	Orange Health Service (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	57	57	53
2012–13	65	60	53
2013–14	57	55	52
2014–15	64	60	55
2015–16	75	62	52
2016–17	86	64	55
2017–18	64	66	57
2018–19	85	69	61
2019–20	111	71	63
2020–21	126	96	80
2021–22	272	81	74
2022–23	326	101	84
2023–24	272	96	77
2024–25	349	99	74

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

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