Surgery Waits

Cairns and Hinterland surgery waiting times

The public hospitals reporting planned-surgery waiting times under Cairns and Hinterland in Queensland.

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

4 public hospitals report planned-surgery waiting times under Cairns and Hinterland. Each hospital's page carries every surgery it reports, ranked against the nearest alternatives — including hospitals outside this network, because a waiting list does not care who runs the hospital.

The source groups public hospitals into Local Hospital Networks — called local health districts in New South Wales, hospital and health services in Queensland, health services in Victoria and Western Australia, and networks elsewhere. The grouping is the source's own mapping, not this site's. The source publishes this network as "Cairns and Hinterland".

Hospitals of Cairns and Hinterland

Public hospitals reporting planned surgery under Cairns and Hinterland, 2024–25, by how many surgery types each reported. The urgent on-time share is the share of Category 1 patients treated within 30 days. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Hospital Area Surgery types reported Category 1 treated on time
Cairns Hospital Cairns North, QLD 102 91%
Atherton Hospital Atherton, QLD 12 98%
Innisfail Hospital Innisfail, QLD 12 83%
Mareeba Hospital Mareeba, QLD 7 100%

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. What the urgency categories mean.

What is not here

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

Compare every Queensland hospital, or every network on the health services index.