Surgery Waits

Hysterectomy waiting time at Broome Hospital

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Broome area of Western Australia was 112 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
112 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 77 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 56 days in 2011–12 to 112 days in 2024–25 — up 100% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 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 Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Broome Hospital112 daysnot published10 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)64 days5.3%1043 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)74 days7.4%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) by financial year at Broome Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0501001502002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Broome Hospital 112WA 64Australia 74
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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 periodBroome Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12563953
2012–13643553
2013–14653352
2014–15not published3855
2015–16483652
2016–17634355
2017–18684857
2018–19535161
2019–20835263
2020–21707380
2021–221736974
2022–23not published5984
2023–241005677
2024–251126474

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

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