Surgery Waits

Orchidopexy waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital

The median wait for orchidopexy at this public hospital in the Tiwi 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
15 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 35 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 74 days in 2017–18 to 77 days in 2024–25 — up 4% — while the national median rose from 61 days to 78 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Orchidopexy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Darwin Hospital77 daysnot published15 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published17 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days4.1%1790 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 orchidopexy by financial year at Royal Darwin Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Darwin Hospital 77Australia 78
  • Royal Darwin Hospital
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Orchidopexy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Darwin Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published62
2017–1874not published61
2018–1979not published62
2019–20not publishednot published76
2020–21not publishednot published86
2021–22not publishednot published91
2022–23not publishednot published114
2023–24not publishednot published84
2024–2577not published78

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

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