Total hip replacement waiting time at Cairns Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Total hip replacement at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 116 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 111 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 18.9%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 54 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Cairns Hospital	116 days	18.9%	111 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	107 days	10.7%	1890 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	130 days	13.0%	12180 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 130 days marks the national median.

Townsville University HospitalQLD · about 288 km away171 days
Mackay Base HospitalQLD · about 590 km away184 days
Rockhampton HospitalQLD · about 872 km away54 days

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

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Total hip replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Cairns Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	84	81	116
2012–13	64	78	116
2013–14	148	76	106
2014–15	93	57	109
2015–16	69	63	114
2016–17	57	80	110
2017–18	92	90	119
2018–19	89	97	119
2019–20	93	101	120
2020–21	127	116	179
2021–22	91	106	153
2022–23	171	145	175
2023–24	87	110	135
2024–25	116	107	130

What is not here

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

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