Surgery Waits

Hysterectomy waiting time at Dandenong Hospital

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Dandenong area of Victoria was 141 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
141 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
51 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
5.9%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 90 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 86 days in 2011–12 to 141 days in 2024–25 — up 64% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Angliss Hospital, about 12 km away, at 98 days. Here, 5.9% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.4%.

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
Dandenong Hospital141 days5.9%51 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)50 days2.7%2957 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) by financial year at Dandenong Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays038751131502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Dandenong Hospital 141VIC 50Australia 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 periodDandenong Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2011–12865753
2012–131396053
2013–141026352
2014–15785155
2015–16524852
2016–17474455
2017–18664557
2018–19704961
2019–20674863
2020–211447080
2021–22265074
2022–23627884
2023–241086677
2024–251415074

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

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