LLETZ procedure waiting time at Cessnock Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for LLETZ procedure — published by the source as “Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ)” — at this public hospital in the Cessnock area of New South Wales, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 44 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 73 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 2020–21 to 44 days in 2024–25 — up 33% — while the national median fell from 38 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maitland Hospital, about 22 km away, at 33 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
Cessnock Hospital	44 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.

Maitland HospitalNSW · about 22 km away33 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 34 km away49 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 36 km away41 days
Calvary Mater NewcastleNSW · about 36 km away26 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 50 km away28 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 66 km away50 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 100 km away47 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 100 km away27 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	Cessnock Hospital (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	not published	34	38
2019–20	not published	31	34
2020–21	33	38	38
2021–22	not published	33	35
2022–23	not published	34	35
2023–24	37	33	37
2024–25	44	35	33

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

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