Lithotripsy waiting time at Cairns Hospital

The median wait for lithotripsy at this public hospital in the Cairns North area of Queensland was 63 days in 2024–25.

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: 63 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 49 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 40 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 59 days in 2022–23 to 63 days in 2024–25 — up 7% — while the national median fell from 30 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Townsville University Hospital, about 288 km away, at 36 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Lithotripsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Cairns Hospital	63 days	not published	12 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	57 days	1.7%	289 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.8%	2881 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

Townsville University HospitalQLD · about 288 km away36 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 Lithotripsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Cairns Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	61	34
2017–18	not published	51	29
2018–19	not published	55	36
2019–20	not published	49	28
2020–21	not published	48	34
2021–22	not published	50	33
2022–23	59	51	30
2023–24	37	59	28
2024–25	63	57	28

Queensland's quarterly figures for urology

These are not figures for lithotripsy. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Cairns.

Patients treated: 128 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time: 51.6%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter: 184 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended: 36 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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