LLETZ procedure waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

Half of patients at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital waited 47 days or less for LLETZ procedure in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ)". This public hospital is in the Waitara area of New South Wales.

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: 47 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 23 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 77 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 35 days in 2018–19 to 47 days in 2024–25 — up 34% — while the national median fell from 38 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Ryde Hospital, about 11 km away, at 24 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
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital	47 days	not published	23 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	35 days	0.1%	1380 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	33 days	0.1%	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.

Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 11 km away: 24 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 22 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 57 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 33 days
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 51 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 24 km away: 56 days
Royal Hospital for Women, NSW · about 27 km away: 30 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 28 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 Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	30
2017–18	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	30
2018–19	35	34	38
2019–20	22	31	34
2020–21	22	38	38
2021–22	21	33	35
2022–23	32	34	35
2023–24	33	33	37
2024–25	47	35	33

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

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