Discectomy waiting time at St George Hospital NSW

The median wait for discectomy at this public hospital in the Kogarah area of New South Wales was 22 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: 22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 50 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.0%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 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 37 days in 2016–17 to 22 days in 2024–25 — down 41% — while the national median stayed at 41 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 10 km away, at 16 days. Here, 6.0% 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
St George Hospital NSW	22 days	6.0%	50 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 10 km away16 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 11 km away66 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 13 km away74 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 15 km away66 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 17 km away46 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 19 km away124 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 23 km away76 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 45 km away79 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	St George Hospital NSW (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	37	56	41
2017–18	23	60	42
2018–19	21	53	43
2019–20	22	56	49
2020–21	67	52	49
2021–22	23	54	49
2022–23	42	81	60
2023–24	21	62	48
2024–25	22	56	41

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

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