Discectomy waiting time at Nepean Hospital

The median wait for discectomy at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 79 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: 79 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 32 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 30 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 183 days in 2016–17 to 79 days in 2024–25 — down 57% — while the national median stayed at 41 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 26 km away, at 76 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Discectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Nepean Hospital	79 days	not published	32 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	56 days	8.8%	500 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	41 days	4.5%	1400 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 41 days marks the national median.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 26 km away76 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 27 km away124 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 36 km away66 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 45 km away46 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 45 km away22 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 46 km away16 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 49 km away74 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 52 km away66 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 Discectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Nepean Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	183	56	41
2017–18	161	60	42
2018–19	57	53	43
2019–20	44	56	49
2020–21	64	52	49
2021–22	103	54	49
2022–23	143	81	60
2023–24	83	62	48
2024–25	79	56	41

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

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