Surgery Waits

Scar revision waiting time at Sunshine Coast University Hospital

The median wait for scar revision at this public hospital in the Birtinya area of Queensland was 23 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
23 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
82 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 29 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 113 days in 2019–20 to 23 days in 2024–25 — down 80% — while the national median stayed at 83 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 9.5%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Scar revision" 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 Scar revision, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Sunshine Coast University Hospital23 days0.0%82 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)62 days5.3%340 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)83 days9.5%1239 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 83 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 scar revision by financial year at Sunshine Coast University Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Sunshine Coast University Hospital 23QLD 62Australia 83
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Scar revision, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSunshine Coast University Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period6565
2017–18not published6967
2018–19not reported for this period6473
2019–201138383
2020–212197584
2021–22not published101121
2022–23not published150133
2023–2428106103
2024–25236283

Queensland's quarterly figures for plastic & reconstructive surgery

These are not figures for scar revision. 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 Sunshine Coast University.

Patients treated
472 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
90.9%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
257 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
12 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

All surgery at Sunshine Coast University Hospital · Scar revision across Australia · Scar revision in Queensland