Cervical discectomy and fusion waiting time at Nepean Hospital

The median wait for cervical discectomy and fusion at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 298 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: 298 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 23 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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 120 days in 2016–17 to 298 days in 2024–25 — up 148% — while the national median rose from 66 days to 94 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 26 km away, at 81 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
Nepean Hospital	298 days	not published	23 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	153 days	19.2%	609 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	94 days	12.9%	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.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 26 km away81 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 26 km away299 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 27 km away329 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 36 km away330 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 45 km away99 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 45 km away117 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 46 km away45 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 49 km away76 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 Cervical discectomy and fusion, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Nepean Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	120	114	66
2017–18	270	95	67
2018–19	64	140	76
2019–20	127	133	80
2020–21	171	172	90
2021–22	379	151	83
2022–23	354	231	139
2023–24	113	162	111
2024–25	298	153	94

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

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