Joint fusion surgery waiting time at Rockhampton Hospital
Half of patients at Rockhampton Hospital waited 281 days or less for joint fusion surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Arthrodesis". This public hospital is in the Wandal 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
- 281 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 21 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 51 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 40 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 354 days in 2016–17 to 281 days in 2024–25 — down 21% — while the national median rose from 101 days to 158 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gladstone Hospital, about 93 km away, at 279 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Arthrodesis" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockhampton Hospital | 281 days | not published | 21 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 132 days | 19.9% | 562 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 158 days | 19.3% | 1563 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 158 days marks the national median.
Gladstone Hospital, QLD · about 93 km away: 279 days
Nambour General Hospital, QLD · about 437 km away: 116 days
Sunshine Coast University Hospital, QLD · about 458 km away: 104 days
Toowoomba Hospital, QLD · about 488 km away: 428 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
- Rockhampton Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Rockhampton Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 354 | 78 | 101 |
| 2017–18 | 173 | 93 | 105 |
| 2018–19 | 86 | 126 | 111 |
| 2019–20 | 69 | 109 | 107 |
| 2020–21 | 80 | 139 | 182 |
| 2021–22 | 92 | 128 | 185 |
| 2022–23 | 400 | 162 | 203 |
| 2023–24 | 288 | 151 | 171 |
| 2024–25 | 281 | 132 | 158 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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