Discectomy waiting time at Liverpool Hospital

The median wait for discectomy at this public hospital in the Warwick Farm area of New South Wales was 124 days in 2024–25.

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: 124 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 51 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 23.5%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 30 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 120 days in 2016–17 to 124 days in 2024–25 — up 3% — while the national median stayed at 41 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 14 km away, at 76 days. Here, 23.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 4.5%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Discectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Liverpool Hospital	124 days	23.5%	51 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.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 14 km away76 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 18 km away66 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 19 km away22 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 24 km away16 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 26 km away46 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 27 km away79 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 27 km away74 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 28 km away66 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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	Liverpool Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	120	56	41
2017–18	103	60	42
2018–19	211	53	43
2019–20	100	56	49
2020–21	90	52	49
2021–22	33	54	49
2022–23	240	81	60
2023–24	199	62	48
2024–25	124	56	41

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

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