Surgery Waits

Cystectomy waiting time at Gold Coast University Hospital

The median wait for cystectomy at this public hospital in the Parkwood area of Queensland was 20 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
20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
16 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 18 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 18 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — up 11% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 29 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sunshine Coast University Hospital, about 137 km away, at 16 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cystectomy" 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 Cystectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Gold Coast University Hospital20 daysnot published16 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)40 days1.0%194 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)not publishednot published74 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)29 days1.5%517 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 29 days marks the national median.

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 — 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 cystectomy by financial year at Gold Coast University Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gold Coast University Hospital 20Australia 29
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cystectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGold Coast University Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–1718not published27
2017–18not publishednot published29
2018–19not publishednot published29
2019–2022not published27
2020–21not publishednot published29
2021–22not publishednot published28
2022–2321not published32
2023–24not publishednot published30
2024–2520not published29

Queensland's quarterly figures for urology

These are not figures for cystectomy. 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
492 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
99.6%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
375 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
10 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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