Female sterilisation waiting time at Wagga Wagga Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Female sterilisation at this public hospital, 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: 350 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 17 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 53 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 46 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Female sterilisation, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Wagga Wagga Hospital	350 days	not published	17 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	267 days	18.9%	350 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	77 days	3.7%	187 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	129 days	11.5%	1388 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 129 days marks the national median.

Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 121 km away144 days
Griffith Base HospitalNSW · about 152 km away223 days
North Canberra HospitalACT · about 158 km away109 days
Northeast Health WangarattaVIC · about 167 km away29 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

Wagga Wagga Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Female sterilisation, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Wagga Wagga Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	138	125	74
2017–18	359	147	76
2018–19	358	114	78
2019–20	359	134	88
2020–21	387	243	112
2021–22	387	192	112
2022–23	442	165	102
2023–24	341	213	118
2024–25	350	267	129

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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