Surgery Waits

Ganglion - excision of waiting time at Alice Springs Hospital

The median wait for ganglion - excision of at this public hospital in the Alice Springs area of Northern Territory was 47 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
47 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 42 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 6 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 51 days in 2016–17 to 47 days in 2024–25 — down 8% — while the national median rose from 69 days to 105 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Ganglion - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Alice Springs Hospital47 daysnot published10 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published14 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)105 days10.3%1191 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for ganglion - excision of by financial year at Alice Springs Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Alice Springs Hospital 47Australia 105
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Ganglion - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlice Springs Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–1751not published69
2017–18not publishednot published75
2018–19not publishednot published80
2019–20not publishednot published91
2020–21not publishednot published145
2021–22not publishednot published136
2022–23not publishednot published136
2023–24not publishednot published107
2024–2547not published105

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

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