Surgery Waits

Cervical discectomy and fusion waiting time at Concord Repatriation Hospital

The median wait for cervical discectomy and fusion at this public hospital in the Concord West area of New South Wales was 330 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
330 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
17 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 77 days in 2016–17 to 330 days in 2024–25 — up 329% — while the national median rose from 66 days to 94 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal North Shore Hospital, about 9 km away, at 99 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cervical discectomy and fusion, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Concord Repatriation Hospital330 daysnot published17 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)153 days19.2%609 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)94 days12.9%1076 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 94 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 cervical discectomy and fusion by financial year at Concord Repatriation Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Concord Repatriation Hospital 330NSW 153Australia 94
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cervical discectomy and fusion, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodConcord Repatriation Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–177711466
2017–18629567
2018–199814076
2019–205613380
2020–2115317290
2021–2212515183
2022–23310231139
2023–24116162111
2024–2533015394

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

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