Hysterectomy waiting time at Royal Hospital for Women

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Randwick 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: 24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 246 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.6%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 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 18 days in 2011–12 to 24 days in 2024–25 — up 33% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 1.6% 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
Royal Hospital for Women	24 days	1.6%	246 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.

Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 6 km away30 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 11 km away121 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 12 km away41 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away170 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 17 km away320 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 19 km away77 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 20 km away68 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 20 km away139 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	Royal Hospital for Women (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	18	57	53
2012–13	22	60	53
2013–14	15	55	52
2014–15	17	60	55
2015–16	18	62	52
2016–17	19	64	55
2017–18	20	66	57
2018–19	18	69	61
2019–20	34	71	63
2020–21	21	96	80
2021–22	14	81	74
2022–23	21	101	84
2023–24	42	96	77
2024–25	24	99	74

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

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