Surgery Waits

Laparoscopy waiting time at Hervey Bay Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Urraween area of Queensland was 66 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
66 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 68 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 63 days in 2016–17 to 66 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maryborough Hospital, about 28 km away, at 58 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Hervey Bay Hospital66 daysnot published13 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)84 days7.1%2015 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)69 days5.4%9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 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 laparoscopy by financial year at Hervey Bay Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Hervey Bay Hospital 66QLD 84Australia 69
  • Hervey Bay Hospital
  • QLD
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodHervey Bay Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17635747
2017–18606351
2018–19626557
2019–20627564
2020–21447279
2021–22677478
2022–23987382
2023–241187669
2024–25668469

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

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