Bladder scope (cystoscopy) waiting time at Shoalhaven Hospital
Half of patients at Shoalhaven Hospital waited 4 days or less for bladder scope (cystoscopy) in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Cystoscopy". This public hospital is in the West Nowra 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
- 4 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 463 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 1.9%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 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here is unchanged from 2011–12 (4 days) — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 1.9% 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shoalhaven Hospital | 4 days | 1.9% | 463 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 34 days | 1.7% | 20425 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.
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 56 km away: 26 days
Campbelltown Hospital, NSW · about 90 km away: 36 days
Sutherland Hospital, NSW · about 104 km away: 30 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 110 km away: 102 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 111 km away: 28 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 112 km away: 41 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 115 km away: 30 days
Royal Hospital for Women, NSW · about 121 km away: 91 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Shoalhaven Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Shoalhaven Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 4 | 25 | 25 |
| 2012–13 | 1 | 25 | 23 |
| 2013–14 | 25 | 27 | 23 |
| 2014–15 | 3 | 29 | 22 |
| 2015–16 | 11 | 30 | 23 |
| 2016–17 | 20 | 27 | 24 |
| 2017–18 | 13 | 28 | 24 |
| 2018–19 | 18 | 27 | 24 |
| 2019–20 | 20 | 27 | 23 |
| 2020–21 | 24 | 30 | 26 |
| 2021–22 | 11 | 28 | 24 |
| 2022–23 | 1 | 31 | 26 |
| 2023–24 | 8 | 30 | 25 |
| 2024–25 | 4 | 34 | 26 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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