Hysterectomy waiting time at Shoalhaven Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the West Nowra 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: 356 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 124 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 112 days in 2011–12 to 356 days in 2024–25 — up 218% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Shellharbour Hospital, about 41 km away, at 311 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
Shoalhaven Hospital	356 days	not published	11 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.

Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 41 km away311 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 56 km away196 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 82 km away152 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 90 km away305 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 104 km away320 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 110 km away39 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 111 km away139 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 112 km away121 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	Shoalhaven Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	112	57	53
2012–13	81	60	53
2013–14	133	55	52
2014–15	82	60	55
2015–16	66	62	52
2016–17	77	64	55
2017–18	86	66	57
2018–19	78	69	61
2019–20	108	71	63
2020–21	160	96	80
2021–22	644	81	74
2022–23	360	101	84
2023–24	77	96	77
2024–25	356	99	74

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

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