Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Proserpine Hospital
Half of patients at Proserpine Hospital waited 122 days or less for keyhole joint surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Arthroscopy". This public hospital is in the Proserpine 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
- 122 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 10 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 150 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 111 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 46 days in 2016–17 to 122 days in 2024–25 — up 165% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mackay Base Hospital, about 102 km away, at 109 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proserpine Hospital | 122 days | not published | 10 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 79 days | 7.7% | 1582 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 78 days | 7.1% | 8779 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.
Mackay Base Hospital, QLD · about 102 km away: 109 days
Townsville University Hospital, QLD · about 225 km away: 90 days
Rockhampton Hospital, QLD · about 385 km away: 197 days
Cairns Hospital, QLD · about 488 km away: 92 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Proserpine Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Proserpine Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 46 | 64 | 68 |
| 2017–18 | 63 | 76 | 72 |
| 2018–19 | 68 | 79 | 75 |
| 2019–20 | 57 | 78 | 76 |
| 2020–21 | 71 | 79 | 89 |
| 2021–22 | 64 | 69 | 85 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 85 | 86 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 82 | 78 |
| 2024–25 | 122 | 79 | 78 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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