LLETZ procedure waiting time at St George Hospital NSW

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 Kogarah area of New South Wales was 70 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 70 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 108 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 97 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 37 days in 2018–19 to 70 days in 2024–25 — up 89% — while the national median fell from 38 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Canterbury Hospital, about 6 km away, at 56 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
St George Hospital NSW	70 days	not published	17 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	35 days	0.1%	1380 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	33 days	0.1%	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.

Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 6 km away56 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 8 km away64 days
Royal Hospital for WomenNSW · about 11 km away30 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 11 km away28 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 15 km away33 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 17 km away22 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 19 km away34 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 19 km away24 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

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 period	St George Hospital NSW (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	30
2017–18	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	30
2018–19	37	34	38
2019–20	49	31	34
2020–21	71	38	38
2021–22	102	33	35
2022–23	109	34	35
2023–24	72	33	37
2024–25	70	35	33

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

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