Spinal disc removal waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital
Half of patients at Royal Darwin Hospital waited 26 days or less for spinal disc removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Discectomy". This public hospital is in the Tiwi area of Northern Territory.
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
- 26 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 30 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 18 days in 2017–18 to 26 days in 2024–25 — up 44% — while the national median fell from 42 days to 41 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Darwin Hospital | 26 days | not published | 20 surgeries |
| Northern Territory (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 20 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 41 days | 4.5% | 1400 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
- Royal Darwin Hospital
- NT
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Darwin Hospital (days) | NT (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | not published | 41 |
| 2017–18 | 18 | not published | 42 |
| 2018–19 | 43 | not published | 43 |
| 2019–20 | 37 | not published | 49 |
| 2020–21 | 50 | not published | 49 |
| 2021–22 | 73 | not published | 49 |
| 2022–23 | 144 | not published | 60 |
| 2023–24 | 48 | not published | 48 |
| 2024–25 | 26 | not published | 41 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital · Spinal disc removal across Australia · Spinal disc removal in Northern Territory · All surgery waits in Northern Territory