Examination of eye under anaesthesia waiting time at Gold Coast University Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Examination of eye under anaesthesia 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: 42 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 11 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 8 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 Examination of eye under anaesthesia, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Gold Coast University Hospital	42 days	not published	13 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	43 days	2.4%	167 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	49 days	0.6%	324 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	34 days	2.3%	1020 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 34 days marks the national median.

Queensland Children's HospitalQLD · about 63 km away49 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 575 km away52 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 688 km away43 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 693 km away25 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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Examination of eye under anaesthesia, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Gold Coast University Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	44	29
2017–18	17	49	31
2018–19	35	47	41
2019–20	35	48	39
2020–21	28	49	35
2021–22	25	64	42
2022–23	23	70	40
2023–24	35	48	35
2024–25	42	49	34

Queensland's quarterly figures for ophthalmology

These are not figures for examination of eye under anaesthesia. 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 Gold Coast University.

Patients treated: 393 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time: 99.0%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter: 871 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended: 1 patientJuly 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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