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title: "Charters Towers Hospital surgery waiting times"
description: "Planned surgery waiting times and waiting list at Charters Towers Hospital, a public hospital in the Charters Towers City area of Queensland, for 2024–25."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/charters-towers-hospital/"
---

# Charters Towers Hospital surgery waiting times

Public hospital in the Charters Towers City area of Queensland.

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

Charters Towers Hospital is a public hospital in the Charters Towers City area of Queensland. It is part of [Townsville](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/townsville/). The national planned-surgery collection reported no surgery here for 2024–25. 5 surgery types were last reported in an earlier period; they are listed below, with the period the source last carried them.

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## Waiting times by surgery

Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed after those, and a surgery it did not report at all this period is listed last. Neither is ranked, and neither shows an older figure in place of a current one.

Planned surgery at Charters Towers Hospital, 2024–25. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

**Not reported for this period**

| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carpal tunnel release last reported 2017–18 | not reported |  |  |
| Ganglion - excision of last reported 2016–17 | not reported |  |  |
| Haemorrhoidectomy last reported 2017–18 | not reported |  |  |
| Skin lesion - excision of last reported 2018–19 | not reported |  |  |
| Toenail surgery last reported 2017–18 | not reported |  |  |

## 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. [What the categories mean, and how every hospital compares.](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/)

All planned surgery at Charters Towers Hospital by urgency category, 2024–25.

| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Urgent](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-1/qld/) | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| [Semi-urgent](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-2/qld/) | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| [Non-urgent](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-3/qld/) | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |

**Cite this page**

> The national planned-surgery collection published no median wait for Charters Towers Hospital in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Charters Towers Hospital wait times and waiting list", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/charters-towers-hospital/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/charters-towers-hospital/](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/charters-towers-hospital/)), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

## What is not here

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

[How these figures are put together](https://surgerywaits.au/methodology/) · [All surgery waits in Queensland](https://surgerywaits.au/state/qld/) · [All hospitals](https://surgerywaits.au/hospitals/)

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

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Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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