Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Bundaberg Base Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Bundaberg West area of Queensland was 76 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
76 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
45 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 150 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 69 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 60 days in 2016–17 to 76 days in 2024–25 — up 27% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maryborough Hospital, about 81 km away, at 39 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Bundaberg Base Hospital76 daysnot published45 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)79 days7.7%1582 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days7.1%8779 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for arthroscopy by financial year at Bundaberg Base Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Bundaberg Base Hospital 76QLD 79Australia 78
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBundaberg Base Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17606468
2017–18647672
2018–191017975
2019–20647876
2020–21827989
2021–22716985
2022–231158586
2023–24708278
2024–25767978

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

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