Surgery Waits

Stone/s urinary tract - removal of waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital

The median wait for stone/s urinary tract - removal of at this public hospital in the Tiwi area of Northern Territory was 36 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
36 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
46 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 28 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 30 days in 2023–24 to 36 days in 2024–25 — up 20% — while the national median rose from 24 days to 25 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Stone/s urinary tract - removal of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Darwin Hospital36 daysnot published46 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published82 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)25 days1.5%3653 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 25 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for stone/s urinary tract - removal of by financial year at Royal Darwin Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Darwin Hospital 36Australia 25
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Stone/s urinary tract - removal of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Darwin Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published28
2017–18not publishednot published29
2018–19not publishednot published26
2019–20not publishednot published28
2020–21not publishednot published29
2021–22not publishednot published21
2022–23not reported for this periodnot published23
2023–2430not published24
2024–2536not published25

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

All surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital · Stone/s urinary tract - removal of across Australia · Stone/s urinary tract - removal of in Northern Territory