Surgery Waits

Prolapse repair waiting time at South West Healthcare [Warrnambool]

The median wait for prolapse repair — published by the source as "Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior" — at this public hospital in the Warrnambool area of Victoria was 109 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
109 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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 121 days in 2016–17 to 109 days in 2024–25 — down 10% — while the national median rose from 96 days to 165 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is University Hospital Geelong, about 167 km away, at 70 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
South West Healthcare [Warrnambool]109 daysnot published23 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)124 days6.1%642 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 South West Healthcare [Warrnambool], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] 109VIC 124Australia 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 periodSouth West Healthcare [Warrnambool] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–171218596
2017–18119111126
2018–1910198111
2019–20139101119
2020–21252177217
2021–22168131183
2022–23120211220
2023–24123153176
2024–25109124165

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

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