Dilatation and curettage waiting time at Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)

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 Wallaroo 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: 13 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 16 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 158 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 22 days in 2016–17 to 13 days in 2024–25 — down 41% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 28 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)	13 days	not published	16 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	42 days	2.2%	3366 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.

Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 90 km away29 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 100 km away33 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 127 km away29 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 131 km away84 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 134 km away50 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 140 km away55 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 141 km away43 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 141 km away34 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 Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo) (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	22	27	23
2017–18	24	31	26
2018–19	17	31	27
2019–20	8	39	28
2020–21	45	34	29
2021–22	16	29	27
2022–23	not published	34	28
2023–24	not published	36	28
2024–25	13	42	28

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

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