Surgery Waits

Female sterilisation waiting time at Griffith Base Hospital

The median wait for female sterilisation at this public hospital in the Griffith area of New South Wales was 223 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
223 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
11 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 53 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 36 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 229 days in 2016–17 to 223 days in 2024–25 — down 3% — while the national median rose from 74 days to 129 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], about 219 km away, at 144 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Female sterilisation" 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 Female sterilisation, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Griffith Base Hospital223 daysnot published11 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)267 days18.9%350 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)77 days3.7%187 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)129 days11.5%1388 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 129 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.

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 female sterilisation by financial year at Griffith Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Griffith Base Hospital 223NSW 267Australia 129
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Female sterilisation, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGriffith Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1722912574
2017–1821214776
2018–194711478
2019–205113488
2020–21178243112
2021–22121192112
2022–2395165102
2023–24not published213118
2024–25223267129

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

All surgery at Griffith Base Hospital · Female sterilisation across Australia · Female sterilisation in New South Wales