Spinal disc removal waiting time at Royal North Shore Hospital
Half of patients at Royal North Shore Hospital waited 46 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 St Leonards area of New South Wales.
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
- 46 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 33 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 17 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here is unchanged from 2016–17 (46 days) — while the national median stayed at 41 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 8 km away, at 16 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Discectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal North Shore Hospital | 46 days | not published | 33 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 56 days | 8.8% | 500 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 41 days | 4.5% | 1400 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 41 days marks the national median.
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 7 km away: 74 days
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 8 km away: 16 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 9 km away: 66 days
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 12 km away: 66 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 17 km away: 22 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 76 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 26 km away: 124 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 45 km away: 79 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Royal North Shore Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal North Shore Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 46 | 56 | 41 |
| 2017–18 | 42 | 60 | 42 |
| 2018–19 | 51 | 53 | 43 |
| 2019–20 | 72 | 56 | 49 |
| 2020–21 | 35 | 52 | 49 |
| 2021–22 | 16 | 54 | 49 |
| 2022–23 | 68 | 81 | 60 |
| 2023–24 | 95 | 62 | 48 |
| 2024–25 | 46 | 56 | 41 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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