Surgery Waits

Curettage and evacuation of uterus waiting time at Geraldton Hospital

The median wait for curettage and evacuation of uterus at this public hospital in the Beachlands area of Western Australia was 5 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
5 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
28 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 81 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 48 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 4 days in 2018–19 to 5 days in 2024–25 — up 25% — while the national median fell from 5 days to 4 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is King Edward Memorial Hospital, about 371 km away, at 4 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Curettage and evacuation of uterus, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Geraldton Hospital5 daysnot published28 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)6 days0.0%2375 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)4 days0.1%8500 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 4 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for curettage and evacuation of uterus by financial year at Geraldton Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays024682016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Geraldton Hospital 5WA 6Australia 4
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Curettage and evacuation of uterus, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGeraldton Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published23
2017–18not published23
2018–19435
2019–20not published24
2020–21not published34
2021–22424
2022–23464
2023–24565
2024–25564

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

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