Dilatation and curettage waiting time at Lachlan Health Service - Parkes

Median wait, long waits and volumes for dilatation and curettage — published by the source as “Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage” — at this public hospital in the Parkes 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: 88 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 94 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 4.3%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 155 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 88 days in 2024–25 — up 319% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 88 km away, at 29 days. Here, 4.3% 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
Lachlan Health Service - Parkes	88 days	4.3%	94 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	40 days	1.1%	12094 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.9%	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.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 88 km away29 days
Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 90 km away19 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 110 km away27 days
Young HospitalNSW · about 130 km away26 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 133 km away33 days
Mudgee Health ServiceNSW · about 146 km away84 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 186 km away25 days
Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 209 km away51 days

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

How the wait has changed

Lachlan Health Service - Parkes
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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 period	Lachlan Health Service - Parkes (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	21	28	23
2017–18	43	29	26
2018–19	98	39	27
2019–20	61	38	28
2020–21	121	43	29
2021–22	20	37	27
2022–23	84	40	28
2023–24	78	36	28
2024–25	88	40	28

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

All surgery at Lachlan Health Service - Parkes · Dilatation and curettage across Australia · Dilatation and curettage in New South Wales