Aortic aneurysm repair waiting time at Sunshine Coast University Hospital
Half of patients at Sunshine Coast University Hospital waited 20 days or less for aortic aneurysm repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Abdominal or thoracic aortic aneurysm - repair/replacement". This public hospital is in the Birtinya 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
- 20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 14 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 24 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 22 days in 2017–18 to 20 days in 2024–25 — down 9% — while the national median rose from 22 days to 24 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Abdominal or thoracic aortic aneurysm - repair/replacement" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunshine Coast University Hospital | 20 days | not published | 14 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 26 days | 2.4% | 254 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 24 days | 0.8% | 862 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 24 days marks the national median.
The Prince Charles Hospital, QLD · about 72 km away: 98 days
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, QLD · about 78 km away: 30 days
Princess Alexandra Hospital, QLD · about 84 km away: 21 days
Gold Coast University Hospital, QLD · about 137 km away: 28 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Sunshine Coast University Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Sunshine Coast University Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 18 | 21 |
| 2017–18 | 22 | 21 | 22 |
| 2018–19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 2019–20 | 18 | 21 | 21 |
| 2020–21 | 26 | 25 | 22 |
| 2021–22 | 27 | 24 | 23 |
| 2022–23 | 36 | 29 | 25 |
| 2023–24 | 36 | 31 | 27 |
| 2024–25 | 20 | 26 | 24 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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