Surgery Waits

LLETZ procedure waiting time at Gawler Health Service

The median wait for LLETZ procedure — published by the source as "Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ)" — at this public hospital in the Gawler area of South Australia was 29 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 13 days in 2017–18 to 29 days in 2024–25 — up 123% — while the national median rose from 30 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Riverland General Hospital, about 173 km away, at 20 days.

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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
Gawler Health Service29 daysnot published13 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)44 days0.6%358 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)33 days0.1%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ) by financial year at Gawler Health Service, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gawler Health Service 29SA 44Australia 33
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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 periodGawler Health Service (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period2830
2017–18132730
2018–1973938
2019–20124034
2020–21222838
2021–22152635
2022–23193535
2023–24214737
2024–25294433

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

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