Surgery Waits

Laparoscopy waiting time at Rockhampton Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Wandal area of Queensland was 119 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
119 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
35 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 118 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 40 days in 2016–17 to 119 days in 2024–25 — up 198% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bundaberg Base Hospital, about 250 km away, at 73 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Rockhampton Hospital119 daysnot published35 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)84 days7.1%2015 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)69 days5.4%9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.

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

Median wait for laparoscopy by financial year at Rockhampton Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Rockhampton Hospital 119QLD 84Australia 69
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRockhampton Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17405747
2017–18706351
2018–19876557
2019–201217564
2020–21867279
2021–221087478
2022–231867382
2023–242107669
2024–251198469

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

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