Surgery Waits

Cystoscopy waiting time at Port Pirie Regional Health Service

The median wait for cystoscopy at this public hospital in the Port Pirie area of South Australia was 98 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
98 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
90 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
1.1%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 128 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 14 days in 2011–12 to 98 days in 2024–25 — up 600% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo), about 90 km away, at 25 days. Here, 1.1% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.3%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cystoscopy" 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 Cystoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Port Pirie Regional Health Service98 days1.1%90 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)44 days2.6%4256 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days1.3%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for cystoscopy by financial year at Port Pirie Regional Health Service, compared with South Australia and Australiadays02550751002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Port Pirie Regional Health Service 98SA 44Australia 26
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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 periodPort Pirie Regional Health Service (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12143225
2012–1373023
2013–14123123
2014–1582722
2015–16112923
2016–17123124
2017–18273024
2018–1912724
2019–2072423
2020–21243126
2021–22292924
2022–23453126
2023–24704425
2024–25984426

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

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