Dilatation and curettage waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

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 Woodville South 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: 50 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 542 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.7%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 127 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 36 days in 2016–17 to 50 days in 2024–25 — up 39% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 6 km away, at 34 days. Here, 3.7% 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
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	50 days	3.7%	542 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 6 km away34 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 7 km away43 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 15 km away55 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 16 km away54 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away84 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 29 km away50 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 38 km away41 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 38 km away29 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	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	36	27	23
2017–18	41	31	26
2018–19	43	31	27
2019–20	50	39	28
2020–21	49	34	29
2021–22	43	29	27
2022–23	81	34	28
2023–24	65	36	28
2024–25	50	42	28

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

All surgery at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital · Dilatation and curettage across Australia · Dilatation and curettage in South Australia