Cairns Hospital surgery waiting times
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026
Cairns Hospital is a public hospital in Queensland. It reported 14 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25.
Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed last and is never ranked.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cystoscopy | 28 days | 128 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) | 39 days | 135 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) | 47 days | 158 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) | 66 days | 160 surgeries | 0.6% |
| Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty | 78 days | 29 surgeries | not published |
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy | 89 days | 134 surgeries | 5.2% |
| Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) | 90 days | 172 surgeries | 8.1% |
| Total hip replacement | 116 days | 111 surgeries | 18.9% |
| Varicose veins treatment | 142 days | 42 surgeries | not published |
| Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) | 165 days | 78 surgeries | 28.2% |
| Septoplasty | 186 days | 52 surgeries | 1.9% |
| Haemorrhoidectomy | 214 days | 10 surgeries | not published |
| Total knee replacement | 352 days | 200 surgeries | 34.5% |
| Myringotomy | not published | not published | not published |
Urgency categories
Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 15 days | 91% | 3798 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 83 days | 62% | 2435 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 354 days | 64% | 964 surgeries |
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.