Dilatation and curettage waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

The median wait for dilatation and curettage — published by the source as "Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage" — at this public hospital in the Adelaide area of South Australia was 34 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: 34 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 97 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 34 days in 2024–25 — up 89% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gawler Health Service, about 39 km away, at 29 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
Royal Adelaide Hospital	34 days	not published	10 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.

Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 2 km away43 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away50 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away54 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away55 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 21 km away84 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 26 km away50 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 31 km away41 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 39 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	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	18	27	23
2017–18	not published	31	26
2018–19	18	31	27
2019–20	27	39	28
2020–21	13	34	29
2021–22	17	29	27
2022–23	not published	34	28
2023–24	42	36	28
2024–25	34	42	28

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

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