Surgery Waits

Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital

The median wait for parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of at this public hospital in the Tiwi area of Northern Territory was 18 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
18 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 54 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 10 days in 2016–17 to 18 days in 2024–25 — up 80% — while the national median rose from 30 days to 45 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Darwin Hospital18 daysnot published15 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published15 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)45 days4.1%1742 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 parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of by financial year at Royal Darwin Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Darwin Hospital 18Australia 45
  • Royal Darwin Hospital
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Darwin Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–1710not published30
2017–1811not published38
2018–1915not published37
2019–2021not published41
2020–2130not published42
2021–2228not published34
2022–2317not published44
2023–24not publishednot published43
2024–2518not published45

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

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