Surgery Waits

Hydrocele surgery waiting time at Gold Coast University Hospital

Half of patients at Gold Coast University Hospital waited 96 days or less for hydrocele surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Hydrocele - repair of". This public hospital is in the Parkwood 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
96 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
29 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 52 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 26 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 116 days in 2016–17 to 96 days in 2024–25 — down 17% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Robina Hospital, about 13 km away, at 88 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Hydrocele - repair of" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hydrocele - repair of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Gold Coast University Hospital96 daysnot published29 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)102 days6.7%223 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)95 days9.8%1477 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 95 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hydrocele - repair of by financial year at Gold Coast University Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gold Coast University Hospital 96QLD 102Australia 95
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Hydrocele - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGold Coast University Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–171168175
2017–181128570
2018–191297970
2019–2015110287
2020–218488113
2021–2211386121
2022–2310888138
2023–2431210190
2024–259610295

Queensland's quarterly figures for urology

These are not figures for hydrocele - repair of. 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 Gold Coast University.

Patients treated
492 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
99.6%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
375 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
10 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

All surgery at Gold Coast University Hospital · Hydrocele surgery across Australia · Hydrocele surgery in Queensland · All surgery waits in Queensland