Surgery Waits

Category 1 (urgent) waiting times in Queensland

Of the 46 public hospitals that published a figure for 2024–25, the share treated on time ranged from 100% at Mareeba Hospital down to 47% at Charleville Hospital.

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

Category 1 (urgent) means surgery is recommended within 30 days of being placed on the waiting list. Surgery that is clinically urgent: the condition can deteriorate quickly enough to become an emergency. The table ranks Queensland's public hospitals by the share of urgent patients treated within that time in 2024–25.

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures.

Category 1 (urgent) planned surgery at Queensland public hospitals, 2024–25, ranked by the share treated within the recommended time — highest first. Hospitals with the same figure share a rank; a hospital with no published figure is listed unranked. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Treated on time Median wait Surgeries
1 Mareeba Hospital 100% 27 days 17 surgeries
1 Robina Hospital 100% 15 days 2548 surgeries
1 Thursday Island Hospital 100% 1 day 13 surgeries
1 Weipa Hospital 100% 1 day 24 surgeries
5 Bundaberg Base Hospital 99% 21 days 1086 surgeries
5 Mater Mothers' Hospital 99% 9 days 345 surgeries
7 Atherton Hospital 98% 13 days 55 surgeries
7 Gold Coast University Hospital 98% 17 days 4939 surgeries
7 Queensland Children's Hospital 98% 7 days 1966 surgeries
7 Toowoomba Hospital 98% 19 days 2159 surgeries
11 Mater Adult Hospital 97% 18 days 2851 surgeries
11 Roma Hospital 97% 17 days 88 surgeries
13 Kingaroy Hospital 95% 22 days 73 surgeries
13 Mount Isa Base Hospital 95% 8 days 236 surgeries
13 Stanthorpe Hospital 95% 16 days 59 surgeries
16 Goondiwindi Hospital 93% 26 days 14 surgeries
16 Maryborough Hospital 93% 21 days 472 surgeries
16 The Prince Charles Hospital 93% 15 days 1519 surgeries
16 Warwick Hospital 93% 14 days 74 surgeries
20 Caboolture Hospital 92% 21 days 836 surgeries
20 Gladstone Hospital 92% 26 days 660 surgeries
20 Logan Hospital 92% 19 days 970 surgeries
23 Cairns Hospital 91% 15 days 3798 surgeries
24 Caloundra Hospital 90% 15 days 61 surgeries
24 Longreach Hospital 90% 7 days 39 surgeries
26 Dalby Hospital 89% 21 days 26 surgeries
27 Beaudesert Hospital 88% 21 days 24 surgeries
27 Ipswich Hospital 88% 16 days 2008 surgeries
29 Hervey Bay Hospital 86% 23 days 640 surgeries
29 Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital 86% 20 days 6692 surgeries
29 St George Hospital Qld 86% 20 days 22 surgeries
32 Gympie Hospital 85% 21 days 265 surgeries
33 Innisfail Hospital 83% 21 days 24 surgeries
34 Princess Alexandra Hospital 82% 14 days 7803 surgeries
35 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital 80% 20 days 2374 surgeries
36 Redland Hospital 79% 21 days 1092 surgeries
37 Rockhampton Hospital 78% 20 days 1122 surgeries
38 Emerald Hospital 76% 20 days 58 surgeries
38 Sunshine Coast University Hospital 76% 21 days 4445 surgeries
40 Nambour General Hospital 75% 25 days 1411 surgeries
40 Proserpine Hospital 75% 23 days 91 surgeries
40 Townsville University Hospital 75% 18 days 3989 surgeries
43 Redcliffe Hospital 71% 24 days 1632 surgeries
44 Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service 69% 23 days 1842 surgeries
45 Mackay Base Hospital 68% 27 days 1303 surgeries
46 Charleville Hospital 47% 33 days 38 surgeries
unranked Ayr Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Cooktown Hospital not published not published not published

What is not here

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

Compare with every state's hospitals, see Queensland's waiting times by surgery, or start from what the urgency categories mean.