Dilatation and curettage waiting times in Australian public hospitals

The national median wait for dilatation and curettage in Australian public hospitals was 28 days in 2024–25 — from 1 day at Thursday Island Hospital to 104 days at Gladstone Hospital. The source publishes this surgery as “Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage”.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Across Australia, the median wait for dilatation and curettage in public hospitals was 28 days in 2024–25, from 36667 surgeries. 0.9% of people waited more than 365 days. 158 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Northern Territory	19 days	0.2%	414 surgeries
2	Victoria	20 days	0.5%	11778 surgeries
3	Queensland	28 days	0.5%	7886 surgeries
4	Tasmania	36 days	0.5%	1129 surgeries
5	New South Wales	40 days	1.1%	12094 surgeries
6	South Australia	42 days	2.2%	3366 surgeries

How the wait has changed

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Median wait in days for Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	NT (days)	VIC (days)	QLD (days)
2016–17	23	19	17	27
2017–18	26	19	18	30
2018–19	27	19	19	29
2019–20	28	15	20	27
2020–21	29	17	20	29
2021–22	27	16	20	27
2022–23	28	16	22	27
2023–24	28	21	21	28
2024–25	28	19	20	28

Common questions

How long is the wait for dilatation and curettage in a public hospital?

The national median was 28 days in 2024–25 — half of people waited less than that, half waited longer. State medians ranged from 19 days in Northern Territory to 42 days in South Australia.

Which public hospital has the shortest wait for dilatation and curettage?

Of the 158 public hospitals that published a median for 2024–25, Thursday Island Hospital reported the shortest (1 day) and Gladstone Hospital the longest (104 days). A shorter median is not a recommendation — how to read these figures.

How many people waited more than a year?

0.9% of people who had dilatation and curettage in an Australian public hospital in 2024–25 waited more than 365 days.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.