Surgery Waits

Prolapse repair waiting time at Shellharbour Hospital

The median wait for prolapse repair — published by the source as "Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior" — at this public hospital in the Shellharbour City Centre area of New South Wales was 321 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
321 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
23 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 45 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 161 days in 2016–17 to 321 days in 2024–25 — up 99% — while the national median rose from 96 days to 165 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Liverpool Hospital, about 72 km away, at 253 days.

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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
Shellharbour Hospital321 daysnot published23 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)251 days20.0%780 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for vaginal repair - anterior/posterior by financial year at Shellharbour Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01252503755002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Shellharbour Hospital 321NSW 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 periodShellharbour Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1716112796
2017–18237169126
2018–19316152111
2019–20330168119
2020–21342286217
2021–22315215183
2022–23402251220
2023–24394234176
2024–25321251165

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

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