Surgery Waits

LLETZ procedure waiting time at Geraldton Hospital

The median wait for LLETZ procedure — published by the source as "Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ)" — at this public hospital in the Beachlands area of Western Australia 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
15 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 108 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 68 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 36 days in 2016–17 to 41 days in 2024–25 — up 14% — while the national median rose from 30 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 347 km away, at 22 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ), 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Geraldton Hospital41 daysnot published15 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)28 days0.0%486 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)33 days0.1%4937 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 33 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ) by financial year at Geraldton Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Geraldton Hospital 41WA 28Australia 33
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Median wait in days for Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGeraldton Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17363430
2017–18242630
2018–19364038
2019–20283534
2020–21283538
2021–22613535
2022–23483035
2023–24not published3637
2024–25412833

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

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