Surgery Waits

Female sterilisation waiting time at Wagga Wagga Hospital

The median wait for female sterilisation at this public hospital in the Turvey Park area of New South Wales was 350 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
350 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
17 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 46 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 138 days in 2016–17 to 350 days in 2024–25 — up 154% — while the national median rose from 74 days to 129 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], about 121 km away, at 144 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Female sterilisation" 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 Female sterilisation, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Wagga Wagga Hospital350 daysnot published17 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)267 days18.9%350 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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for female sterilisation by financial year at Wagga Wagga Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01252503755002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Wagga Wagga Hospital 350NSW 267Australia 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 periodWagga Wagga Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1713812574
2017–1835914776
2018–1935811478
2019–2035913488
2020–21387243112
2021–22387192112
2022–23442165102
2023–24341213118
2024–25350267129

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

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