Surgery Waits

Hip replacement waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Tiwi area of Northern Territory was 381 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
381 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
31 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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 122 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 98 days in 2011–12 to 381 days in 2024–25 — up 289% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days.

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

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Darwin Hospital381 daysnot published31 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published59 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)130 days13.0%12180 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 total hip replacement by financial year at Royal Darwin Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Royal Darwin Hospital 381Australia 130
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Total hip replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Darwin Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2011–1298not published116
2012–1397not published116
2013–1470not published106
2014–15109not published109
2015–16151not published114
2016–17188not published110
2017–18158not published119
2018–19119not published119
2019–2098not published120
2020–21105not published179
2021–22177not published153
2022–23392not published175
2023–24160not published135
2024–25381not published130

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

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