Muscle or tendon length - change of waiting time at Cairns Hospital
The median wait for muscle or tendon length - change of at this public hospital in the Cairns North area of Queensland was 113 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
- 113 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 23 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 7 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 82 days in 2017–18 to 113 days in 2024–25 — up 38% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 89 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns Hospital | 113 days | not published | 23 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 89 days | 9.3% | 215 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 89 days | 11.8% | 439 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.
How the wait has changed
- Cairns Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Cairns Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 81 | 69 |
| 2017–18 | 82 | 75 | 75 |
| 2018–19 | 79 | 80 | 77 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 85 | 75 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 87 | 88 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 92 | 85 |
| 2022–23 | 99 | 87 | 92 |
| 2023–24 | 94 | 91 | 103 |
| 2024–25 | 113 | 89 | 89 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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