Hysterectomy waiting time at Sunshine Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hysterectomy — published by the source as “Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)” — at this public hospital in the Sunshine North 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: 34 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 231 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.3%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 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 56 days in 2011–12 to 34 days in 2024–25 — down 39% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville], about 13 km away, at 28 days. Here, 1.3% 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
Sunshine Hospital	34 days	1.3%	231 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 13 km away28 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 13 km away8 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 13 km away64 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 18 km away31 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 21 km away59 days
Mercy Hospital for WomenVIC · about 21 km away32 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 27 km away29 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 28 km away51 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	Sunshine Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	56	57	53
2012–13	50	60	53
2013–14	79	63	52
2014–15	72	51	55
2015–16	71	48	52
2016–17	78	44	55
2017–18	85	45	57
2018–19	81	49	61
2019–20	81	48	63
2020–21	91	70	80
2021–22	20	50	74
2022–23	55	78	84
2023–24	58	66	77
2024–25	34	50	74

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

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