LLETZ procedure waiting time at Gawler Health Service

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 Gawler area of South Australia, 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: 29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 13 days in 2017–18 to 29 days in 2024–25 — up 123% — while the national median rose from 30 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Riverland General Hospital, about 173 km away, at 20 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
Gawler Health Service	29 days	not published	13 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	44 days	0.6%	358 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.

Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away90 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 27 km away38 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 38 km away46 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 38 km away82 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 51 km away54 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 65 km away44 days
Riverland General HospitalSA · about 173 km away20 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	Gawler Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	28	30
2017–18	13	27	30
2018–19	7	39	38
2019–20	12	40	34
2020–21	22	28	38
2021–22	15	26	35
2022–23	19	35	35
2023–24	21	47	37
2024–25	29	44	33

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

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