Rotator cuff repair waiting time at Cairns Hospital
Median wait, long waits and volumes for rotator cuff repair — published by the source as “Rotator cuff - repair of” — at this public hospital in the Cairns North area of Queensland, 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
- 132 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 16 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 40 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 79 days in 2017–18 to 132 days in 2024–25 — up 67% — while the national median rose from 104 days to 111 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns Hospital | 132 days | not published | 16 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 82 days | 9.9% | 141 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 111 days | 12.9% | 1144 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
- Cairns Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Cairns Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 84 | 103 |
| 2017–18 | 79 | 86 | 104 |
| 2018–19 | 43 | 116 | 127 |
| 2019–20 | 49 | 92 | 123 |
| 2020–21 | 57 | 132 | 203 |
| 2021–22 | 89 | 105 | 151 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 182 | 193 |
| 2023–24 | 42 | 111 | 150 |
| 2024–25 | 132 | 82 | 111 |
Queensland's quarterly figures for orthopaedic surgery
These are not figures for rotator cuff - repair of. 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
- 335 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Treated within the recommended time
- 64.2%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Still waiting at the end of the quarter
- 720 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Waiting longer than recommended
- 146 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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