Functional endoscopic sinus surgery waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital
The median wait for functional endoscopic sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Tiwi area of Northern Territory was 250 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
- 250 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 17 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 37 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 54 days in 2016–17 to 250 days in 2024–25 — up 363% — while the national median rose from 111 days to 214 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Darwin Hospital | 250 days | not published | 17 surgeries |
| Northern Territory (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 22 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 214 days | 22.7% | 2508 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 | 54 | not published | 111 |
| 2017–18 | 11 | not published | 119 |
| 2018–19 | 33 | not published | 139 |
| 2019–20 | 18 | not published | 127 |
| 2020–21 | 186 | not published | 217 |
| 2021–22 | 141 | not published | 154 |
| 2022–23 | not published | not published | 292 |
| 2023–24 | 337 | not published | 274 |
| 2024–25 | 250 | not published | 214 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital · Functional endoscopic sinus surgery across Australia · Functional endoscopic sinus surgery in Northern Territory