Surgery Waits

Mastectomy waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Tiwi area of Northern Territory was 27 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
27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
38 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 97 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 90 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 13 days in 2016–17 to 27 days in 2024–25 — up 108% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Mastectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Darwin Hospital27 daysnot published38 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published44 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)19 days1.9%4551 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastectomy by financial year at Royal Darwin Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Darwin Hospital 27Australia 19
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Darwin Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–1713not published16
2017–1812not published16
2018–19not publishednot published17
2019–2014not published17
2020–2126not published18
2021–2237not published17
2022–2324not published17
2023–2436not published19
2024–2527not published19

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

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