Surgery Waits

Radical neck dissection waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]

The median wait for radical neck dissection at this public hospital in the Darlinghurst area of New South Wales was 17 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
17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
16 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 17 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 fallen from 18 days in 2016–17 to 17 days in 2024–25 — down 6% — while the national median rose from 13 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal North Shore Hospital, about 7 km away, at 16 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Radical neck dissection, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]17 daysnot published16 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)18 days1.8%224 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)15 days0.9%535 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 15 days marks the national median.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for radical neck dissection by financial year at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], compared with New South Wales and Australiadays051015202016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 17NSW 18Australia 15
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Radical neck dissection, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSt Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17181513
2017–18151614
2018–19172015
2019–20not published1412
2020–21121513
2021–22201513
2022–23161514
2023–24151613
2024–25171815

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

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