Surgery Waits

Blepharoplasty waiting time at Gold Coast University Hospital

The median wait for blepharoplasty at this public hospital in the Parkwood area of Queensland was 343 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
343 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
25 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 17 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 57 days in 2016–17 to 343 days in 2024–25 — up 502% — while the national median rose from 85 days to 246 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Princess Alexandra Hospital, about 61 km away, at 28 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Blepharoplasty" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Blepharoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Gold Coast University Hospital343 daysnot published25 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)335 days27.0%174 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)98 days11.7%145 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)246 days23.0%666 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 246 days marks the national median.

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for blepharoplasty by financial year at Gold Coast University Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gold Coast University Hospital 343QLD 98Australia 246
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Blepharoplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGold Coast University Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–1757not published85
2017–188268111
2018–1971111126
2019–201990128
2020–2128not published245
2021–2275not published149
2022–23107101254
2023–2420683262
2024–2534398246

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

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