Surgery Waits

Prolapse repair waiting time at St George Hospital NSW

The median wait for prolapse repair — published by the source as "Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior" — at this public hospital in the Kogarah area of New South Wales was 411 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
411 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
19 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 63 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 89 days in 2016–17 to 411 days in 2024–25 — up 362% — while the national median rose from 96 days to 165 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 10 km away, at 22 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
St George Hospital NSW411 daysnot published19 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 St George Hospital NSW, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01252503755002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25St George Hospital NSW 411NSW 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 periodSt George Hospital NSW (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–178912796
2017–1881169126
2018–19154152111
2019–20105168119
2020–21201286217
2021–22119215183
2022–23282251220
2023–24401234176
2024–25411251165

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

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