Category 3 (non-urgent) waiting times in Northern Territory

Of the 5 public hospitals that published a figure for 2024–25, the share treated on time ranged from 95% at Katherine Hospital down to 55% at Gove Hospital.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Category 3 (non-urgent) means surgery is recommended within 365 days of being placed on the waiting list. Surgery for a condition causing minimal pain, dysfunction or disability, and unlikely to deteriorate quickly. The table ranks Northern Territory's public hospitals by the share of non-urgent patients treated within that time in 2024–25.

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures.

Category 3 (non-urgent) planned surgery at Northern Territory public hospitals, 2024–25, ranked by the share treated within the recommended time — highest first. Hospitals with the same figure share a rank; a hospital with no published figure is listed unranked. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	Hospital	Treated on time	Median wait	Surgeries
1	Katherine Hospital	95%	87 days	106 surgeries
2	Alice Springs Hospital	81%	142 days	246 surgeries
3	Palmerston Regional Hospital	77%	294 days	333 surgeries
4	Royal Darwin Hospital	58%	316 days	375 surgeries
5	Gove Hospital	55%	355 days	91 surgeries

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Compare with every state's hospitals, see Northern Territory's waiting times by surgery, or start from what the urgency categories mean.