Surgery Waits

Stanthorpe Hospital surgery waiting times

In 2024–25, this public hospital in the Stanthorpe area of Queensland published median waits from 23 days for skin lesion removal to 40 days for dilatation and curettage.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

Stanthorpe Hospital is a public hospital in the Stanthorpe area of Queensland. It is part of Darling Downs. It reported 12 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25. 10 surgery types were last reported in an earlier period; they are listed below, with the period the source last carried them.

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Waiting times by surgery

Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed after those, and a surgery it did not report at all this period is listed last. Neither is ranked, and neither shows an older figure in place of a current one.

Planned surgery at Stanthorpe Hospital, 2024–25. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Surgery Median wait Surgeries Waited more than 365 days
Skin lesion - excision of 23 days 67 surgeries 1.5%
Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage 40 days 16 surgeries not published
Carpal tunnel release not published not published not published
Curettage and evacuation of uterus not published not published not published
Dialysis access surgery not published not published not published
Haemorrhoidectomy not published not published not published
Herniorrhaphy not published 7 surgeries not published
Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) not published not published not published
Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy not published 8 surgeries not published
Laparoscopy not published not published not published
Toenail surgery not published 6 surgeries not published
Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior not published not published not published
Circumcision last reported 2017–18 not reported for this period not reported for this period not reported for this period
Cone biopsy last reported 2023–24 not reported for this period not reported for this period not reported for this period
Diathermy of wart/s last reported 2016–17 not reported for this period not reported for this period not reported for this period
Endometrial ablation last reported 2018–19 not reported for this period not reported for this period not reported for this period
Female sterilisation last reported 2022–23 not reported for this period not reported for this period not reported for this period
Ganglion - excision of last reported 2020–21 not reported for this period not reported for this period not reported for this period
Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ) last reported 2023–24 not reported for this period not reported for this period not reported for this period
Muscle biopsy/temporal artery biopsy last reported 2023–24 not reported for this period not reported for this period not reported for this period
Pilonidal sinus surgery last reported 2018–19 not reported for this period not reported for this period not reported for this period
Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy last reported 2022–23 not reported for this period not reported for this period not reported for this period

Urgency categories

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose. What the categories mean, and how every hospital compares.

All planned surgery at Stanthorpe Hospital by urgency category, 2024–25.
Urgency category Median wait Treated within the recommended time Surgeries
Urgent 16 days 95% 59 surgeries
Semi-urgent 72 days 89% 55 surgeries
Non-urgent 342 days 94% 16 surgeries

Queensland's own quarterly figures

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.

These figures count patients, not surgeries, and they are a snapshot of one quarter. The table above covers a whole financial year. Comparing a number from one table with a number from the other does not tell you anything.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Stanthorpe.

Planned surgery at Stanthorpe Hospital by urgency category, July to September 2025.
GroupPatients treatedTreated within the recommended timeStill waiting at the end of the quarterWaiting longer than recommended
All planned surgery at this hospital46 patients89.1%40 patients0 patients
Category 1 — urgent (recommended within 30 days)19 patients94.7%6 patients0 patients
Category 2 — semi-urgent (recommended within 90 days)18 patients83.3%16 patients0 patients
Category 3 — non-urgent (recommended within 365 days)9 patients88.9%18 patients0 patients

By surgical specialty

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.

Planned surgery at Stanthorpe Hospital by surgical specialty, July to September 2025.
GroupPatients treatedTreated within the recommended timeStill waiting at the end of the quarterWaiting longer than recommended
General surgery24 patients95.8%22 patients0 patients
Gynaecology22 patients81.8%18 patients0 patients
Cite this page

In 2024–25, Stanthorpe Hospital published median planned-surgery waits from 23 days for skin lesion removal to 40 days for dilatation and curettage.

Copy-ready citation

SurgeryWaits, "Stanthorpe Hospital surgery wait times and waiting list", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/stanthorpe-hospital/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: SurgeryWaits (https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/stanthorpe-hospital/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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