Surgery Waits

Deviated septum surgery waiting time at Queensland Children's Hospital

Half of patients at Queensland Children's Hospital waited 289 days or less for deviated septum surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Septoplasty". 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
289 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
32 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 103 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 47 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 241 days in 2015–16 to 289 days in 2024–25 — up 20% — while the national median rose from 209 days to 320 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Redcliffe Hospital, about 30 km away, at 252 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Septoplasty" 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 Septoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Queensland Children's Hospital289 daysnot published32 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)317 days18.9%801 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)320 days30.8%5687 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 320 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 septoplasty by financial year at Queensland Children's Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays01252503755002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Queensland Children's Hospital 289QLD 317Australia 320
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Median wait in days for Septoplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodQueensland Children's Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period60160
2012–13not reported for this period76197
2013–14not reported for this period87221
2014–15not published84214
2015–1624197209
2016–1799173209
2017–18328302248
2018–19190319241
2019–20169314277
2020–21179318330
2021–22328309315
2022–23469342365
2023–24367282332
2024–25289317320

Queensland's quarterly figures for ENT surgery

These are not figures for septoplasty. 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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