Surgery Waits

Orchidectomy waiting time at Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital

The median wait for orchidectomy at this public hospital in the Herston area of Queensland was 6 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
6 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 23 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 3 days in 2016–17 to 6 days in 2024–25 — up 100% — while the national median rose from 9 days to 11 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Orchidectomy" 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 Orchidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital6 daysnot published10 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)8 days1.7%174 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)11 days0.8%718 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 11 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 orchidectomy by financial year at Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0369132016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital 6QLD 8Australia 11
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Orchidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17389
2017–1861010
2018–196911
2019–209109
2020–2161111
2021–229911
2022–237911
2023–2481010
2024–256811

Queensland's quarterly figures for urology

These are not figures for orchidectomy. 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 Royal Brisbane & Women's.

Patients treated
216 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
124 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
1 patientJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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