Surgery Waits

Laparoscopy waiting time at Gove Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Nhulunbuy area of Northern Territory was 77 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
77 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 79 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Laparoscopy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Gove Hospital77 daysnot published10 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published87 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)69 days5.4%9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for laparoscopy by financial year at Gove Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gove Hospital 77NT 71Australia 69
  • Gove Hospital
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGove Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published47
2017–18not publishednot published51
2018–19not publishednot published57
2019–20not publishednot published64
2020–21not published4779
2021–22not publishednot published78
2022–23not publishednot published82
2023–24not published7169
2024–2577not published69

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

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