Surgery Waits

Cervical discectomy and fusion waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]

The median wait for cervical discectomy and fusion at this public hospital in the Darlinghurst area of New South Wales was 76 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
76 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
28 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 214 days in 2022–23 to 76 days in 2024–25 — down 64% — while the national median fell from 139 days to 94 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 4 km away, at 45 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cervical discectomy and fusion, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]76 daysnot published28 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)153 days19.2%609 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)94 days12.9%1076 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 94 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for cervical discectomy and fusion by financial year at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 76NSW 153Australia 94
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cervical discectomy and fusion, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSt Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published11466
2017–18not published9567
2018–19not published14076
2019–20not published13380
2020–21not published17290
2021–22not published15183
2022–23214231139
2023–2446162111
2024–257615394

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

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