Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Nambour General Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Nambour area of Queensland was 111 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
111 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
67 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
13.4%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 150 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 107 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 55 days in 2016–17 to 111 days in 2024–25 — up 102% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sunshine Coast University Hospital, about 21 km away, at 90 days. Here, 13.4% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.1%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Arthroscopy" 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Nambour General Hospital111 days13.4%67 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)79 days7.7%1582 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days7.1%8779 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 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 arthroscopy by financial year at Nambour General Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Nambour General Hospital 111QLD 79Australia 78
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodNambour General Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17556468
2017–18727672
2018–19547975
2019–20777876
2020–212387989
2021–22866985
2022–23938586
2023–241078278
2024–251117978

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

All surgery at Nambour General Hospital · Arthroscopy across Australia · Arthroscopy in Queensland