LLETZ procedure waiting time at Palmerston Regional 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 Farrar area of Northern Territory, 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: 67 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 57 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 108 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 94 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2019–20 (67 days) — while the national median fell from 34 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Darwin Hospital, about 19 km away, at 52 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.1%.

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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
Palmerston Regional Hospital	67 days	0.0%	57 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)	61 days	1.0%	103 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.

Royal Darwin HospitalNT · about 19 km away52 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Palmerston Regional Hospital
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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	Palmerston Regional Hospital (days)	NT (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	30	30
2017–18	not reported for this period	34	30
2018–19	not reported for this period	44	38
2019–20	67	38	34
2020–21	27	26	38
2021–22	28	27	35
2022–23	35	not published	35
2023–24	62	not published	37
2024–25	67	61	33

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

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