Unhealed fracture repair waiting time at Cairns Hospital
Half of patients at Cairns Hospital waited 18 days or less for unhealed fracture repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Fracture non-union - treatment of". This public hospital is in the Cairns North area of Queensland.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 18 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 24 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 47 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 42 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 3 days in 2016–17 to 18 days in 2024–25 — up 500% — while the national median rose from 4 days to 5 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Townsville University Hospital, about 288 km away, at 14 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns Hospital | 18 days | not published | 24 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 8 days | 0.6% | 1073 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 5 days | 0.6% | 3596 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 5 days marks the national median.
Townsville University Hospital, QLD · about 288 km away: 14 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
- Cairns Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Cairns Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| 2017–18 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| 2018–19 | 14 | 6 | 4 |
| 2019–20 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
| 2020–21 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
| 2021–22 | 19 | 7 | 4 |
| 2022–23 | 9 | 7 | 4 |
| 2023–24 | 21 | 8 | 5 |
| 2024–25 | 18 | 8 | 5 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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