Surgery Waits

Dilatation and curettage waiting time at Longreach Hospital

Half of patients at Longreach Hospital waited 60 days or less for dilatation and curettage in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage". This public hospital is in the Ilfracombe area of Queensland.

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
60 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
20 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 141 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 60 days in 2024–25 — up 186% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Emerald Hospital, about 397 km away, at 41 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

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
Longreach Hospital60 daysnot published20 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)28 days0.5%7886 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 Longreach Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Longreach Hospital 60QLD 28Australia 28
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 periodLongreach Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17212723
2017–18not published3026
2018–19422927
2019–20392728
2020–21282929
2021–22702727
2022–23412728
2023–24not published2828
2024–25602828

Queensland's quarterly figures for gynaecology

These are not figures for hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Longreach.

Patients treated
15 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
93.3%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
19 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
1 patientJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

All surgery at Longreach Hospital · Dilatation and curettage across Australia · Dilatation and curettage in Queensland · All surgery waits in Queensland