Surgery Waits

Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at Redcliffe Hospital

The median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Redcliffe area of Queensland was 65 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
65 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 46 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 64 days in 2016–17 to 65 days in 2024–25 — up 2% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 65 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Prince Charles Hospital, about 20 km away, at 33 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Pilonidal sinus surgery" 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 Pilonidal sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Redcliffe Hospital65 daysnot published12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)86 days4.9%515 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)not publishednot published49 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)65 days3.4%1265 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 65 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 pilonidal sinus surgery by financial year at Redcliffe Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Redcliffe Hospital 65QLD 73Australia 65
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Pilonidal sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRedcliffe Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17646655
2017–18557461
2018–19737363
2019–2048not published67
2020–2176not published83
2021–2247not published93
2022–2332not published94
2023–2446not published70
2024–2565not published65

Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery

These are not figures for pilonidal sinus surgery. 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 Redcliffe.

Patients treated
180 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
77.8%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
285 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
12 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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