Nose and throat scope waiting time at Queensland Children's Hospital
Half of patients at Queensland Children's Hospital waited 69 days or less for nose and throat scope in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Nasendoscopy". This public hospital is in the South Brisbane 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
- 69 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 14 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 14 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 38 days in 2016–17 to 69 days in 2024–25 — up 82% — while the national median rose from 0 days to 277 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sydney Children's Hospital, about 735 km away, at 13 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Nasendoscopy" 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Children's Hospital | 69 days | not published | 14 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 343 days | 25.5% | 314 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 71 days | 2.8% | 108 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 277 days | 18.7% | 492 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 277 days marks the national median.
Toowoomba Hospital, QLD · about 107 km away: 171 days
Maitland Hospital, NSW · about 600 km away: 352 days
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 618 km away: 192 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 715 km away: 261 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 726 km away: 338 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 729 km away: 357 days
Sydney Children's Hospital, NSW · about 735 km away: 13 days
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 798 km away: 162 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.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Queensland Children's Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Queensland Children's Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 38 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 34 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 197 | 95 |
| 2019–20 | 72 | 79 | 80 |
| 2020–21 | 33 | 11 | 50 |
| 2021–22 | 39 | 57 | 63 |
| 2022–23 | 189 | 82 | 116 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 74 | 182 |
| 2024–25 | 69 | 71 | 277 |
Queensland's quarterly figures for ENT surgery
These are not figures for nasendoscopy. 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 Queensland Children's.
- Patients treated
- 803 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Treated within the recommended time
- 94.0%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Still waiting at the end of the quarter
- 1078 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Waiting longer than recommended
- 23 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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