Surgery Waits

Hysterectomy waiting time at Alice Springs Hospital

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Alice Springs area of Northern Territory was 40 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
40 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
19 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 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 69 days in 2011–12 to 40 days in 2024–25 — down 42% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days.

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
Alice Springs Hospital40 daysnot published19 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published91 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)74 days7.4%9163 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) by financial year at Alice Springs Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays02550751002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Alice Springs Hospital 40NT 30Australia 74
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Median wait in days for Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlice Springs Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2011–1269not published53
2012–1347not published53
2013–1451not published52
2014–1533not published55
2015–1642not published52
2016–1743not published55
2017–18not publishednot published57
2018–1957not published61
2019–20835463
2020–21624780
2021–2239not published74
2022–23293084
2023–2448not published77
2024–2540not published74

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

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