Surgery Waits

Hysterectomy waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Waitara area of New South Wales was 76 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
76 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
31 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 126 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 45 days in 2011–12 to 76 days in 2024–25 — up 69% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal North Shore Hospital, about 15 km away, at 41 days.

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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
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital76 daysnot published31 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 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays03163941252011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 76NSW 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 periodHornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12455753
2012–13426053
2013–14505552
2014–15556055
2015–16386252
2016–17426455
2017–18486657
2018–19546961
2019–20507163
2020–21569680
2021–22878174
2022–238810184
2023–24839677
2024–25769974

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

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