Untethering of spinal cord waiting time at Queensland Children's Hospital
The median wait for untethering of spinal cord at this public hospital in the South Brisbane area of Queensland was 33 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 33 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 18 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 3 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 36 days in 2016–17 to 33 days in 2024–25 — down 8%.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Children's Hospital | 33 days | not published | 18 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 25 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 56 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.
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 | 36 | not published | 42 |
| 2017–18 | 53 | not published | 44 |
| 2018–19 | 25 | not published | 43 |
| 2019–20 | 44 | not published | not published |
| 2020–21 | 67 | not published | not published |
| 2021–22 | 31 | not published | not published |
| 2022–23 | not published | not published | not published |
| 2023–24 | 36 | not published | not published |
| 2024–25 | 33 | not published | not published |
Queensland's quarterly figures for neurosurgery
These are not figures for untethering of spinal cord. 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
- 46 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Treated within the recommended time
- 97.8%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Still waiting at the end of the quarter
- 23 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Waiting longer than recommended
- 0 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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