LLETZ procedure waiting time at Port Macquarie Base 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 Port Macquarie 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: 19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 14 days in 2018–19 to 19 days in 2024–25 — up 36% — while the national median fell from 38 days to 33 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 Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Port Macquarie Base Hospital	19 days	not published	15 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.

Wauchope District Memorial HospitalNSW · about 14 km away25 days
Kempsey District HospitalNSW · about 43 km away19 days
Manning HospitalNSW · about 65 km away28 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 128 km away28 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 189 km away33 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 190 km away27 days
Calvary Mater NewcastleNSW · about 194 km away26 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 198 km away49 days

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

How the wait has changed

Port Macquarie Base 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	Port Macquarie Base 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	14	34	38
2019–20	23	31	34
2020–21	25	38	38
2021–22	19	33	35
2022–23	22	34	35
2023–24	20	33	37
2024–25	19	35	33

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

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