Surgery Waits

Prolapse repair waiting time at Grafton Base Hospital

The median wait for prolapse repair — published by the source as "Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior" — at this public hospital in the Grafton area of New South Wales was 325 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
325 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
18 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 66 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 77 days in 2016–17 to 325 days in 2024–25 — up 322% — while the national median rose from 96 days to 165 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Coffs Harbour Hospital, about 73 km away, at 67 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior" 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 Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Grafton Base Hospital325 daysnot published18 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)251 days20.0%780 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)313 days24.6%337 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)165 days16.9%2117 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 165 days marks the national median.

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for vaginal repair - anterior/posterior by financial year at Grafton Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Grafton Base Hospital 325NSW 251Australia 165
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGrafton Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–177712796
2017–18222169126
2018–19178152111
2019–2060168119
2020–21253286217
2021–22not published215183
2022–23343251220
2023–24361234176
2024–25325251165

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

All surgery at Grafton Base Hospital · Prolapse repair across Australia · Prolapse repair in New South Wales