Prolapse repair waiting times in Australian public hospitals

The national median wait for prolapse repair in Australian public hospitals was 165 days in 2024–25 — from 22 days at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital to 631 days at Rockingham General Hospital. The source publishes this surgery as “Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior”.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Across Australia, the median wait for prolapse repair in public hospitals was 165 days in 2024–25, from 2117 surgeries. 16.9% of people waited more than 365 days. 66 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 165 days marks the national median.

Western Australia119 days
Victoria124 days
South Australia224 days
New South Wales251 days
Queensland313 days
Australian Capital Territorynot published
Northern Territorynot published

Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Western Australia	119 days	14.1%	184 surgeries
2	Victoria	124 days	6.1%	642 surgeries
3	South Australia	224 days	31.3%	147 surgeries
4	New South Wales	251 days	20.0%	780 surgeries
5	Queensland	313 days	24.6%	337 surgeries
unranked	Australian Capital Territory	not published	not published	18 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	9 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
WA
VIC
SA

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	WA (days)	VIC (days)	SA (days)
2016–17	96	70	85	62
2017–18	126	70	111	105
2018–19	111	77	98	70
2019–20	119	92	101	77
2020–21	217	125	177	118
2021–22	183	140	131	235
2022–23	220	133	211	142
2023–24	176	108	153	127
2024–25	165	119	124	224

Common questions

How long is the wait for prolapse repair in a public hospital?

The national median was 165 days in 2024–25 — half of people waited less than that, half waited longer. State medians ranged from 119 days in Western Australia to 313 days in Queensland.

Which public hospital has the shortest wait for prolapse repair?

Of the 66 public hospitals that published a median for 2024–25, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital reported the shortest (22 days) and Rockingham General Hospital the longest (631 days). A shorter median is not a recommendation — how to read these figures.

How many people waited more than a year?

16.9% of people who had prolapse repair in an Australian public hospital in 2024–25 waited more than 365 days.

What is not here

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

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.