Hysterectomy waiting time at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Carlton 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: 8 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 126 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 27 days in 2022–23 to 8 days in 2024–25 — down 70% — while the national median fell from 84 days to 74 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre	8 days	not published	10 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.

Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 0 km away28 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 9 km away64 days
Mercy Hospital for WomenVIC · about 10 km away32 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 13 km away34 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 14 km away29 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 16 km away51 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 17 km away59 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 18 km away80 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	Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not published	57	53
2012–13	not published	60	53
2013–14	not published	63	52
2014–15	not published	51	55
2015–16	not published	48	52
2016–17	not published	44	55
2017–18	not published	45	57
2018–19	not published	49	61
2019–20	not published	48	63
2020–21	not published	70	80
2021–22	not published	50	74
2022–23	27	78	84
2023–24	not published	66	77
2024–25	8	50	74

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

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