Haemorrhoidectomy waiting time at Cairns Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Haemorrhoidectomy at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 214 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 101 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Cairns Hospital	214 days	not published	10 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	76 days	3.1%	509 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

Townsville University HospitalQLD · about 288 km away64 days
Gladstone HospitalQLD · about 960 km away121 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Cairns Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	89	52	57
2012–13	115	56	59
2013–14	97	53	59
2014–15	70	50	56
2015–16	not published	59	54
2016–17	85	63	49
2017–18	236	69	47
2018–19	108	73	49
2019–20	not published	84	57
2020–21	not published	78	70
2021–22	not published	85	77
2022–23	99	80	90
2023–24	not published	81	67
2024–25	214	76	63

Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery

These are not figures for haemorrhoidectomy. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Cairns.

Patients treated: 425 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time: 94.6%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter: 617 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended: 34 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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