Surgery Waits

Endometrial ablation waiting time at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]

The median wait for endometrial ablation at this public hospital in the Ballarat Central area of Victoria was 25 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
25 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
15 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 27 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 37 days in 2016–17 to 25 days in 2024–25 — down 32% — while the national median rose from 54 days to 71 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Endometrial ablation, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]25 daysnot published15 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)52 days2.1%287 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)71 days4.9%878 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 71 days marks the national median.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for endometrial ablation by financial year at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital], compared with Victoria and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 25VIC 52Australia 71
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Endometrial ablation, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBallarat Health Services [Base Hospital] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17374454
2017–18304959
2018–19305259
2019–20306064
2020–21not published11182
2021–22not published9884
2022–23not published9574
2023–24345058
2024–25255271

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

All surgery at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] · Endometrial ablation across Australia · Endometrial ablation in Victoria