Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at Queensland Children's Hospital

The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the South Brisbane area of Queensland was 100 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: 100 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 28 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 30 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 84 days in 2016–17 to 100 days in 2024–25 — up 19% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Princess Alexandra Hospital, about 2 km away, at 50 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hydrocele - repair of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Queensland Children's Hospital	100 days	not published	28 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	102 days	6.7%	223 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	95 days	9.8%	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.

Princess Alexandra HospitalQLD · about 2 km away50 days
Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation ServiceQLD · about 4 km away168 days
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee HospitalQLD · about 9 km away119 days
Redcliffe HospitalQLD · about 30 km away157 days
Gold Coast University HospitalQLD · about 63 km away96 days
Robina HospitalQLD · about 74 km away88 days
Nambour General HospitalQLD · about 96 km away136 days
Toowoomba HospitalQLD · about 107 km away235 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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 period	Queensland Children's Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	84	81	75
2017–18	274	85	70
2018–19	78	79	70
2019–20	81	102	87
2020–21	148	88	113
2021–22	84	86	121
2022–23	174	88	138
2023–24	63	101	90
2024–25	100	102	95

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

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