Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Innisfail Hospital
Half of patients at Innisfail Hospital waited 335 days or less for varicose vein surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Varicose veins treatment". This public hospital is in the Innisfail 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
- 335 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 15 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 57 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 137 days in 2011–12 to 335 days in 2024–25 — up 145% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Cairns Hospital, about 73 km away, at 142 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innisfail Hospital | 335 days | not published | 15 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 189 days | 4.6% | 474 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 133 days | 9.5% | 3346 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 133 days marks the national median.
Cairns Hospital, QLD · about 73 km away: 142 days
Townsville University Hospital, QLD · about 215 km away: 88 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
- Innisfail Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Innisfail Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 137 | 77 | 103 |
| 2012–13 | not published | 56 | 96 |
| 2013–14 | not reported for this period | 64 | 97 |
| 2014–15 | not published | 40 | 105 |
| 2015–16 | not published | 58 | 104 |
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 72 | 90 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 90 | 101 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 109 | 108 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 146 | 129 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 101 | 223 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 119 | 208 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 219 | 216 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 206 | 189 |
| 2024–25 | 335 | 189 | 133 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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