Surgery Waits

Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital

The median wait for salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy at this public hospital in the Tiwi area of Northern Territory was 44 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
44 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
22 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 100 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 29 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 82 days in 2016–17 to 44 days in 2024–25 — down 46% — while the national median rose from 41 days to 56 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Darwin Hospital44 daysnot published22 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published40 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)56 days2.4%4989 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 salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy by financial year at Royal Darwin Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Darwin Hospital 44Australia 56
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Darwin Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–1782not published41
2017–1816not published43
2018–1933not published48
2019–2052not published50
2020–2130not published64
2021–2221not published63
2022–2320not published69
2023–2426not published57
2024–2544not published56

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

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