Hysterectomy waiting time at Royal Hobart Hospital

The median wait for hysterectomy — published by the source as "Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)" — at this public hospital in the Hobart area of Tasmania was 41 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 41 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 142 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.7%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 22 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 33 days in 2011–12 to 41 days in 2024–25 — up 24% — while the national median rose from 53 days to 74 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Frankston Public Surgical Centre, about 557 km away, at 38 days. Here, 0.7% 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
Royal Hobart Hospital	41 days	0.7%	142 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	77 days	6.7%	298 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	50 days	2.7%	2957 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	74 days	7.4%	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.

Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 160 km away123 days
North West Regional HospitalTAS · about 236 km away179 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 497 km away53 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 523 km away78 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 537 km away47 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 557 km away38 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 558 km away34 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 563 km away123 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 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

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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 period	Royal Hobart Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	33	53	53
2012–13	44	70	53
2013–14	23	71	52
2014–15	40	86	55
2015–16	80	110	52
2016–17	97	77	55
2017–18	42	62	57
2018–19	215	134	61
2019–20	196	164	63
2020–21	49	121	80
2021–22	131	174	74
2022–23	50	98	84
2023–24	34	65	77
2024–25	41	77	74

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

All surgery at Royal Hobart Hospital · Hysterectomy across Australia · Hysterectomy in Tasmania