Surgery Waits

Dilatation and curettage waiting time at Noarlunga Hospital

The median wait for dilatation and curettage — published by the source as "Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage" — at this public hospital in the Noarlunga Centre area of South Australia was 50 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
50 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
331 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
3.0%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 158 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 127 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 33 days in 2016–17 to 50 days in 2024–25 — up 52% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 26 km away, at 34 days. Here, 3.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.9%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Noarlunga Hospital50 days3.0%331 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)42 days2.2%3366 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)28 days0.9%36667 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 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 hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage by financial year at Noarlunga Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Noarlunga Hospital 50SA 42Australia 28
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodNoarlunga Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17332723
2017–18483126
2018–19423127
2019–20403928
2020–21563429
2021–22702927
2022–23483428
2023–24333628
2024–25504228

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

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