Prostate surgery waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital
The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Tiwi area of Northern Territory was 54 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
- 54 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 103 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 45 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 58 days in 2011–12 to 54 days in 2024–25 — down 7% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Darwin Hospital | 54 days | not published | 43 surgeries |
| Northern Territory (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 47 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 55 days | 4.0% | 8810 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
- Royal Darwin Hospital
- NT
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Darwin Hospital (days) | NT (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 58 | not published | 42 |
| 2012–13 | 53 | not published | 39 |
| 2013–14 | 67 | not published | 43 |
| 2014–15 | 70 | not published | 40 |
| 2015–16 | 29 | not published | 42 |
| 2016–17 | 120 | not published | 41 |
| 2017–18 | 64 | not published | 46 |
| 2018–19 | 23 | not published | 44 |
| 2019–20 | 22 | not published | 44 |
| 2020–21 | 80 | not published | 54 |
| 2021–22 | 111 | not published | 48 |
| 2022–23 | 62 | not published | 60 |
| 2023–24 | 57 | not published | 58 |
| 2024–25 | 54 | not published | 55 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital · Prostate surgery across Australia · Prostate surgery in Northern Territory