Surgery Waits

Curettage and evacuation of uterus waiting time at Tamworth Hospital

The median wait for curettage and evacuation of uterus at this public hospital in the North Tamworth area of New South Wales was 41 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
41 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
235 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.4%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 81 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 76 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 29 days in 2018–19 to 41 days in 2024–25 — up 41% — while the national median fell from 5 days to 4 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Inverell Hospital, about 146 km away, at 30 days. Here, 0.4% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.1%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Curettage and evacuation of uterus, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Tamworth Hospital41 days0.4%235 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)7 days0.3%2397 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)4 days0.1%8500 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 4 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 curettage and evacuation of uterus by financial year at Tamworth Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Tamworth Hospital 41NSW 7Australia 4
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Curettage and evacuation of uterus, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodTamworth Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this periodnot reported for this period3
2017–18not reported for this periodnot reported for this period3
2018–1929105
2019–2038104
2020–2135104
2021–225064
2022–233064
2023–243275
2024–254174

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

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