Surgery Waits

Thyroglossal remnant - removal of waiting time at Gold Coast University Hospital

The median wait for thyroglossal remnant - removal of at this public hospital in the Parkwood 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
12 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 5 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 107 days in 2017–18 to 76 days in 2024–25 — down 29% — while the national median rose from 76 days to 90 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Thyroglossal remnant - removal of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Gold Coast University Hospital76 daysnot published12 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)not publishednot published63 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)90 days12.6%174 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for thyroglossal remnant - removal of by financial year at Gold Coast University Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gold Coast University Hospital 76Australia 90
  • Gold Coast University Hospital
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Thyroglossal remnant - removal of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGold Coast University Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published57
2017–18107not published76
2018–19not publishednot published62
2019–20not publishednot published88
2020–21not publishednot published83
2021–22not publishednot published90
2022–23not publishednot published117
2023–24not publishednot published93
2024–2576not published90

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

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