Surgery Waits

Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at Toowoomba Hospital

The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the South Toowoomba area of Queensland was 235 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
235 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 52 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 45 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 98 days in 2023–24 to 235 days in 2024–25 — up 140% — while the national median rose from 90 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Queensland Children's Hospital, about 107 km away, at 100 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hydrocele - repair of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Toowoomba Hospital235 daysnot published10 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)102 days6.7%223 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)95 days9.8%1477 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 95 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 hydrocele - repair of by financial year at Toowoomba Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Toowoomba Hospital 235QLD 102Australia 95
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Hydrocele - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodToowoomba Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published8175
2017–18not published8570
2018–19not published7970
2019–20not published10287
2020–21not published88113
2021–22not published86121
2022–23not published88138
2023–249810190
2024–2523510295

Queensland's quarterly figures for urology

These are not figures for hydrocele - repair of. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Toowoomba.

Patients treated
235 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
94.5%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
183 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
3 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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