Hysterectomy waiting time at Shellharbour Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Shellharbour City Centre 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: 311 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 30 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 116 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 250 days in 2011–12 to 311 days in 2024–25 — up 24% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wollongong Hospital, about 15 km away, at 196 days.

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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
Shellharbour Hospital	311 days	not published	30 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.

Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 15 km away196 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 41 km away356 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 54 km away305 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 63 km away320 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 71 km away121 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 72 km away139 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 72 km away39 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 75 km away170 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	Shellharbour Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	250	57	53
2012–13	294	60	53
2013–14	99	55	52
2014–15	186	60	55
2015–16	not published	62	52
2016–17	231	64	55
2017–18	210	66	57
2018–19	302	69	61
2019–20	323	71	63
2020–21	317	96	80
2021–22	204	81	74
2022–23	382	101	84
2023–24	365	96	77
2024–25	311	99	74

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

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