Discectomy waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Discectomy 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: 74 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 16 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 22 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 Discectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]	74 days	not published	16 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.

Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 4 km away16 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 5 km away66 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 7 km away46 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 13 km away22 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 13 km away66 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 23 km away76 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 27 km away124 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 49 km away79 days

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

How the wait has changed

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Discectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	38	56	41
2017–18	63	60	42
2018–19	43	53	43
2019–20	not published	56	49
2020–21	not published	52	49
2021–22	not published	54	49
2022–23	161	81	60
2023–24	53	62	48
2024–25	74	56	41

What is not here

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

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