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title: "NT Regional Health Services surgery waiting times"
description: "Public hospital surgery waiting times across NT Regional Health Services: the 6 hospitals reporting planned surgery in 2024–25, each with its full waiting-time comparison."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/nt-regional-health-services/"
---

# NT Regional Health Services surgery waiting times

The public hospitals reporting planned-surgery waiting times under NT Regional Health Services in Northern Territory.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

6 public hospitals report planned-surgery waiting times under NT Regional Health Services. Each hospital's page carries every surgery it reports, ranked against the nearest alternatives — including hospitals outside this network, because a waiting list does not care who runs the hospital.

The source groups public hospitals into Local Hospital Networks — called local health districts in New South Wales, hospital and health services in Queensland, health services in Victoria and Western Australia, and networks elsewhere. The grouping is the source's own mapping, not this site's. The source publishes this network as "NT Regional Health Services (NTRHS)".

## Hospitals of NT Regional Health Services

Public hospitals reporting planned surgery under NT Regional Health Services, 2024–25, by how many surgery types each reported. The urgent on-time share is the share of Category 1 patients treated within 30 days. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

| Hospital | Area | Surgery types reported | Category 1 treated on time |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Royal Darwin Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-darwin-hospital/) | Tiwi, NT | 116 | 69% |
| [Alice Springs Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/alice-springs-hospital/) | Alice Springs, NT | 77 | 88% |
| [Palmerston Regional Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/palmerston-regional-hospital/) | Farrar, NT | 51 | 72% |
| [Katherine Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/katherine-hospital/) | Katherine, NT | 28 | 71% |
| [Gove Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/gove-hospital/) | Nhulunbuy, NT | 27 | 77% |
| [Tennant Creek Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/tennant-creek-hospital/) | Tennant Creek, NT | 0 | not published |

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. [What the urgency categories mean.](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/)

## What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Compare [every Northern Territory hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/state/nt/), or every network on [the health services index](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/).

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

**In an emergency call 000.**

Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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