Surgery Waits

Inguinal hernia repair waiting times in Northern Territory

Public hospitals in Northern Territory ranked by their median wait for inguinal hernia repair, published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

The source splits hernia repair in two: this page covers "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — groin hernias — and every other hernia, such as umbilical, femoral and incisional hernias, is on hernia repair.

5 public hospitals in Northern Territory reported inguinal hernia repair in 2024–25. The state median was 43 days; the national median was 73 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

2 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 73 days marks the national median.

Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy in Northern Territory public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Palmerston Regional Hospital 37 days not published 28 surgeries
2 Royal Darwin Hospital 41 days not published 43 surgeries
3 Alice Springs Hospital 49 days not published 36 surgeries
unranked Gove Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Katherine Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Northern Territory.