Cystoscopy waiting time at Lyell McEwin Hospital

The median wait for cystoscopy at this public hospital in the Elizabeth Vale area of South Australia was 108 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait: 108 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 300 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.0%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 131 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 130 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 45 days in 2011–12 to 108 days in 2024–25 — up 140% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Modbury Hospital, about 10 km away, at 88 days. Here, 2.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.3%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cystoscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Lyell McEwin Hospital	108 days	2.0%	300 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	44 days	2.6%	4256 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	26 days	1.3%	57307 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

Modbury HospitalSA · about 10 km away88 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 19 km away13 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 19 km away53 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 19 km away62 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 21 km away58 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 32 km away27 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 42 km away23 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 45 km away53 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 Cystoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Lyell McEwin Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	45	32	25
2012–13	42	30	23
2013–14	38	31	23
2014–15	33	27	22
2015–16	57	29	23
2016–17	39	31	24
2017–18	41	30	24
2018–19	48	27	24
2019–20	42	24	23
2020–21	80	31	26
2021–22	96	29	24
2022–23	91	31	26
2023–24	84	44	25
2024–25	108	44	26

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

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