Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) waiting time at Westmead Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) 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: 27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 310 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.5%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 7 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 Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Westmead Hospital	27 days	6.5%	310 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.

Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 7 km away205 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 7 km away68 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 10 km away106 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 14 km away39 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away139 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 16 km away76 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 16 km away170 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 19 km away41 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	Westmead Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	26	57	53
2012–13	25	60	53
2013–14	24	55	52
2014–15	23	60	55
2015–16	24	62	52
2016–17	28	64	55
2017–18	28	66	57
2018–19	24	69	61
2019–20	28	71	63
2020–21	29	96	80
2021–22	22	81	74
2022–23	27	101	84
2023–24	24	96	77
2024–25	27	99	74

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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