Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 41 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 43 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 186 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 33 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Darwin Hospital	41 days	not published	43 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)	43 days	0.8%	118 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	73 days	5.0%	16694 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

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

Palmerston Regional HospitalNT · about 19 km away37 days

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

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Darwin Hospital (days)	NT (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	98	73	57
2012–13	67	52	60
2013–14	44	42	56
2014–15	64	54	51
2015–16	61	55	52
2016–17	39	36	52
2017–18	41	37	56
2018–19	57	46	59
2019–20	79	73	67
2020–21	66	35	76
2021–22	75	not published	77
2022–23	48	50	82
2023–24	27	not published	70
2024–25	41	43	73

What is not here

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

All surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital · Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy across Australia · Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy in Northern Territory