Caloundra Hospital surgery waiting times
In 2024–25, this public hospital in the Caloundra area of Queensland published median waits from 67 days for pterygium - excision of to 70 days for cataract surgery.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
Caloundra Hospital is a public hospital in the Caloundra area of Queensland. It is part of Sunshine Coast. It reported 8 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25. 11 surgery types were last reported in an earlier period; they are listed below, with the period the source last carried them.
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Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed after those, and a surgery it did not report at all this period is listed last. Neither is ranked, and neither shows an older figure in place of a current one.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pterygium - excision of | 67 days | 48 surgeries | not published |
| Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) | 70 days | 621 surgeries | 0.2% |
| Blepharoplasty | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| Ectropion - correction of | not published | 9 surgeries | not published |
| Procedure for strabismus (squint repair) | not published | not published | not published |
| Ptosis - repair of | not published | not published | not published |
| Skin lesion - excision of | not published | not published | not published |
| Trabeculectomy | not published | not published | not published |
| Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) last reported 2012–13 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Cystoscopy last reported 2013–14 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Dacryocystorhinostomy last reported 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Haemorrhoidectomy last reported 2012–13 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage last reported 2022–23 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy last reported 2012–13 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Muscle biopsy/temporal artery biopsy last reported 2019–20 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Probing of naso-lacrimal duct last reported 2020–21 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Pyogenic granuloma - removal of last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Varicose veins treatment last reported 2012–13 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) last reported 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
Urgency categories
Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose. What the categories mean, and how every hospital compares.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 15 days | 90% | 61 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 45 days | 94% | 325 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 162 days | 99% | 396 surgeries |
Queensland's own quarterly figures
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.
These figures count patients, not surgeries, and they are a snapshot of one quarter. The table above covers a whole financial year. Comparing a number from one table with a number from the other does not tell you anything.
Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Caloundra.
| Group | Patients treated | Treated within the recommended time | Still waiting at the end of the quarter | Waiting longer than recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All planned surgery at this hospital | 218 patients | 99.1% | 256 patients | 3 patients |
| Category 1 — urgent (recommended within 30 days) | 16 patients | 100.0% | 2 patients | 0 patients |
| Category 2 — semi-urgent (recommended within 90 days) | 144 patients | 98.6% | 93 patients | 3 patients |
| Category 3 — non-urgent (recommended within 365 days) | 58 patients | 100.0% | 161 patients | 0 patients |
By surgical specialty
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.
| Group | Patients treated | Treated within the recommended time | Still waiting at the end of the quarter | Waiting longer than recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ophthalmology | 218 patients | 99.1% | 256 patients | 3 patients |
Cite this page
In 2024–25, Caloundra Hospital published median planned-surgery waits from 67 days for pterygium - excision of to 70 days for cataract surgery.
Copy-ready citation
Surgery Waits, "Caloundra Hospital surgery wait times and waiting list", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/caloundra-hospital/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/caloundra-hospital/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.