Hysterectomy waiting time at Royal North Shore Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the St Leonards 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: 41 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 117 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 5.1%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 22 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 32 days in 2011–12 to 41 days in 2024–25 — up 28% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 8 km away, at 30 days. Here, 5.1% 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
Royal North Shore Hospital	41 days	5.1%	117 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 8 km away30 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 9 km away77 days
Royal Hospital for WomenNSW · about 12 km away24 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 14 km away170 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 15 km away68 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 15 km away76 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 17 km away121 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 19 km away27 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 North Shore Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	32	57	53
2012–13	42	60	53
2013–14	31	55	52
2014–15	34	60	55
2015–16	38	62	52
2016–17	29	64	55
2017–18	42	66	57
2018–19	31	69	61
2019–20	23	71	63
2020–21	28	96	80
2021–22	22	81	74
2022–23	25	101	84
2023–24	36	96	77
2024–25	41	99	74

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

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