Surgery Waits

Female sterilisation waiting time at Sunshine Hospital

The median wait for female sterilisation at this public hospital in the Sunshine North area of Victoria was 145 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
145 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
12 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 53 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 30 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 145 days in 2024–25 — up 418% — while the national median rose from 74 days to 129 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville], about 13 km away, at 114 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Female sterilisation, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Sunshine Hospital145 daysnot published12 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)77 days3.7%187 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)129 days11.5%1388 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 129 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 female sterilisation by financial year at Sunshine Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays01883755637502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Sunshine Hospital 145VIC 77Australia 129
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Female sterilisation, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSunshine Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17283874
2017–18244076
2018–19265378
2019–20not published9288
2020–21not published163112
2021–22not publishednot published112
2022–23507154102
2023–24297145118
2024–2514577129

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

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