Haemorrhoidectomy waiting time at Townsville University Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Haemorrhoidectomy 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: 64 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 28 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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 49 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Townsville University Hospital	64 days	not published	28 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	76 days	3.1%	509 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

Cairns HospitalQLD · about 288 km away214 days
Gladstone HospitalQLD · about 685 km away121 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Townsville University Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	153	52	57
2012–13	61	56	59
2013–14	283	53	59
2014–15	85	50	56
2015–16	102	59	54
2016–17	90	63	49
2017–18	73	69	47
2018–19	78	73	49
2019–20	92	84	57
2020–21	105	78	70
2021–22	99	85	77
2022–23	66	80	90
2023–24	34	81	67
2024–25	64	76	63

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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