Surgery Waits

LLETZ procedure waiting time at Royal North Shore 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 St Leonards area of New South Wales was 22 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
22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
30 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 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 27 days in 2018–19 to 22 days in 2024–25 — down 19% — while the national median fell from 38 days to 33 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Royal North Shore Hospital22 daysnot published30 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)35 days0.1%1380 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ) by financial year at Royal North Shore Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal North Shore Hospital 22NSW 35Australia 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 periodRoyal North Shore Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this periodnot reported for this period30
2017–18not reported for this periodnot reported for this period30
2018–19273438
2019–20333134
2020–21293838
2021–22313335
2022–23443435
2023–24433337
2024–25223533

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

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