Tailbone cyst surgery waiting time at The Prince Charles Hospital
Half of patients at The Prince Charles Hospital waited 33 days or less for tailbone cyst surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Pilonidal sinus surgery". This public hospital is in the Chermside West 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
- 33 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 17 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 46 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 40 days in 2016–17 to 33 days in 2024–25 — down 18% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 65 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Northern Beaches Hospital, about 728 km away, at 19 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Pilonidal sinus surgery" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Prince Charles Hospital | 33 days | not published | 17 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 86 days | 4.9% | 515 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 49 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 65 days | 3.4% | 1265 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 65 days marks the national median.
Redcliffe Hospital, QLD · about 20 km away: 65 days
Manning Hospital, NSW · about 506 km away: 89 days
Wyong Hospital, NSW · about 669 km away: 87 days
Gosford Hospital, NSW · about 689 km away: 90 days
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 723 km away: 53 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 725 km away: 86 days
Northern Beaches Hospital, NSW · about 728 km away: 19 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 739 km away: 28 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- The Prince Charles Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | The Prince Charles Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 40 | 66 | 55 |
| 2017–18 | 34 | 74 | 61 |
| 2018–19 | 49 | 73 | 63 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | not published | 67 |
| 2020–21 | 27 | not published | 83 |
| 2021–22 | not published | not published | 93 |
| 2022–23 | 61 | not published | 94 |
| 2023–24 | 69 | not published | 70 |
| 2024–25 | 33 | not published | 65 |
Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery
These are not figures for pilonidal sinus surgery. 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 Prince Charles.
- Patients treated
- 386 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Treated within the recommended time
- 98.2%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Still waiting at the end of the quarter
- 486 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
- Waiting longer than recommended
- 0 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at The Prince Charles Hospital · Tailbone cyst surgery across Australia · Tailbone cyst surgery in Queensland · All surgery waits in Queensland