LLETZ procedure waiting time at Shellharbour 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 Shellharbour City Centre 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: 31 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 58 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 52 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 45 days in 2018–19 to 31 days in 2024–25 — down 31% — while the national median fell from 38 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Shoalhaven Hospital, about 41 km away, at 21 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
Shellharbour Hospital	31 days	0.0%	58 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.

Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 15 km away38 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 41 km away21 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 54 km away79 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 63 km away64 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 71 km away70 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 72 km away28 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 72 km away34 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 75 km away56 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	Shellharbour 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	45	34	38
2019–20	47	31	34
2020–21	64	38	38
2021–22	39	33	35
2022–23	26	34	35
2023–24	35	33	37
2024–25	31	35	33

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

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