Dilatation and curettage waiting time at Royal Hospital for Women

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 Randwick 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: 51 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 692 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.3%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 131 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 29 days in 2016–17 to 51 days in 2024–25 — up 76% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], about 5 km away, at 27 days. Here, 1.3% 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
Royal Hospital for Women	51 days	1.3%	692 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 5 km away27 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 6 km away20 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 11 km away69 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 12 km away28 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away50 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away21 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 17 km away62 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 19 km away57 days

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

How the wait has changed

Royal Hospital for Women
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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	Royal Hospital for Women (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	29	28	23
2017–18	37	29	26
2018–19	44	39	27
2019–20	40	38	28
2020–21	43	43	29
2021–22	29	37	27
2022–23	36	40	28
2023–24	42	36	28
2024–25	51	40	28

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

All surgery at Royal Hospital for Women · Dilatation and curettage across Australia · Dilatation and curettage in New South Wales