Surgery Waits

Fundoplication waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital

The median wait for fundoplication at this public hospital in the Tiwi area of Northern Territory was 75 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
75 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 27 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 57 days in 2017–18 to 75 days in 2024–25 — up 32% — while the national median rose from 83 days to 90 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Fundoplication, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Darwin Hospital75 daysnot published10 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published10 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)90 days8.0%802 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for fundoplication by financial year at Royal Darwin Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Darwin Hospital 75Australia 90
  • Royal Darwin Hospital
  • NT
  • Australia
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Fundoplication, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Darwin Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published81
2017–1857not published83
2018–19not publishednot published82
2019–20not publishednot published86
2020–21192not published104
2021–2249not published106
2022–23not publishednot published133
2023–24not publishednot published104
2024–2575not published90

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

All surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital · Fundoplication across Australia · Fundoplication in Northern Territory