Unhealed fracture repair waiting times in Australian public hospitals
The national median wait for unhealed fracture repair in Australian public hospitals was 5 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Hospital medians ranged from 1 day at Concord Repatriation Hospital to 105 days at Perth Children's Hospital. The source publishes this surgery as "Fracture non-union - treatment of".
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
Across Australia, the median wait for unhealed fracture repair in public hospitals was 5 days in 2024–25, from 3596 surgeries. 0.6% of people waited more than 365 days. 47 public hospitals published a median wait for it.
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State by state
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 5 days marks the national median.
New South Wales: 2 days
Victoria: 4 days
Western Australia: 7 days
Queensland: 8 days
Northern Territory: not published
South Australia: not published
| Rank | State or territory | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New South Wales | 2 days | 0.6% | 1394 surgeries |
| 2 | Victoria | 4 days | 0.2% | 404 surgeries |
| 3 | Western Australia | 7 days | 0.8% | 607 surgeries |
| 4 | Queensland | 8 days | 0.6% | 1073 surgeries |
| unranked | Northern Territory | not published | not published | 95 surgeries |
| unranked | South Australia | not published | not published | 23 surgeries |
Ranked by area: near Camperdown · near Heidelberg · near Herston · near the Perth CBD · near Randwick · near Woolloongabba · and 2 more areas on the state pages.
How the wait has changed
- Australia
- NSW
- VIC
- WA
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Australia (days) | NSW (days) | VIC (days) | WA (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 4 | not published | not published | 3 |
| 2017–18 | 5 | not published | not published | 3 |
| 2018–19 | 4 | 2 | not published | 3 |
| 2019–20 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 2020–21 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021–22 | 4 | 2 | not published | 3 |
| 2022–23 | 4 | 2 | not published | 4 |
| 2023–24 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 2024–25 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
Common questions
How long is the wait for unhealed fracture repair in a public hospital?
The national median was 5 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Half of people waited less than that, half waited longer. State medians ranged from 2 days in New South Wales to 8 days in Queensland.
Which public hospital has the shortest wait for unhealed fracture repair?
Of the 47 public hospitals that published a median for 2024–25, Concord Repatriation Hospital reported the shortest median, 1 day, and Perth Children's Hospital the longest, 105 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). A shorter median is not a recommendation. How to read these figures.
How many people waited more than a year?
0.6% of people who had unhealed fracture repair in an Australian public hospital in 2024–25 waited more than 365 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
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The national median wait for unhealed fracture repair in Australian public hospitals was 5 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
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Surgery Waits, "Unhealed fracture repair waiting list by state, 2024–25", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/fracture-non-union-treatment-of/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/fracture-non-union-treatment-of/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.
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<img src="https://surgerywaits.au/charts/fracture-non-union-treatment-of.svg" width="720" height="284" alt="Median public hospital waiting time for Unhealed fracture repair by state and territory, 2024–25">What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.
The source calls this collection "elective surgery". This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.