LLETZ procedure waiting time at Maitland 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 Telarah 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: 33 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 35 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 55 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 51 days in 2018–19 to 33 days in 2024–25 — down 35% — while the national median fell from 38 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Calvary Mater Newcastle, about 25 km away, at 26 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
Maitland Hospital	33 days	not published	35 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.

Cessnock HospitalNSW · about 22 km away44 days
Calvary Mater NewcastleNSW · about 25 km away26 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 26 km away49 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 34 km away41 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 60 km away28 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 79 km away50 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 116 km away47 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 119 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	Maitland 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	51	34	38
2019–20	35	31	34
2020–21	50	38	38
2021–22	30	33	35
2022–23	35	34	35
2023–24	20	33	37
2024–25	33	35	33

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

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