Surgery Waits

Dilatation and curettage waiting time at Katherine Hospital

The median wait for dilatation and curettage — published by the source as "Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage" — at this public hospital in the Katherine area of Northern Territory 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
27 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 158 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 79 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 18 days in 2016–17 to 29 days in 2024–25 — up 61% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Palmerston Regional Hospital, about 258 km away, at 22 days.

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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
Katherine Hospital29 daysnot published27 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)19 days0.2%414 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)28 days0.9%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage by financial year at Katherine Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Katherine Hospital 29NT 19Australia 28
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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 periodKatherine Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17181923
2017–18141926
2018–19171927
2019–2091528
2020–21111729
2021–22731627
2022–23not published1628
2023–24302128
2024–25291928

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

All surgery at Katherine Hospital · Dilatation and curettage across Australia · Dilatation and curettage in Northern Territory