Surgery Waits

Hysterectomy waiting time at Dubbo Hospital

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Dubbo area of New South Wales was 354 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
354 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
102 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
41.2%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 123 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 30 days in 2011–12 to 354 days in 2024–25 — up 1080% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lachlan Health Service - Parkes, about 110 km away, at 287 days. Here, 41.2% 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
Dubbo Hospital354 days41.2%102 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)99 days12.2%2971 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 Dubbo Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01252503755002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Dubbo Hospital 354NSW 99Australia 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 periodDubbo Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12305753
2012–13316053
2013–14455552
2014–15646055
2015–16626252
2016–17996455
2017–18786657
2018–191366961
2019–203197163
2020–214179680
2021–223938174
2022–2337210184
2023–243329677
2024–253549974

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

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