Discectomy waiting times in Queensland

Public hospitals in Queensland ranked by their median wait for discectomy.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

11 public hospitals in Queensland reported discectomy in 2024–25. The state median was 37 days; the national median was 41 days.

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

4 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 41 days marks the national median.

Mater Adult Hospital24 days
Gold Coast University Hospital29 days
Townsville University Hospital33 days
Cairns Hospital42 days
Princess Alexandra Hospital44 days
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital61 days
Sunshine Coast University Hospital94 days
Logan Hospitalnot published
Queensland Children's Hospitalnot published
Rockhampton Hospitalnot published
Toowoomba Hospitalnot published

Discectomy in Queensland public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	Hospital	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Mater Adult Hospital	24 days	0.0%	174 surgeries
2	Gold Coast University Hospital	29 days	not published	39 surgeries
3	Townsville University Hospital	33 days	0.0%	56 surgeries
4	Cairns Hospital	42 days	not published	12 surgeries
5	Princess Alexandra Hospital	44 days	0.0%	65 surgeries
6	Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital	61 days	0.0%	65 surgeries
7	Sunshine Coast University Hospital	94 days	3.6%	56 surgeries
unranked	Logan Hospital	not published	not published	7 surgeries
unranked	Queensland Children's Hospital	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Rockhampton Hospital	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Toowoomba Hospital	not published	not published	6 surgeries

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Queensland.