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Keyhole joint surgery at Queensland Children's Hospital

Queensland Children's Hospital is a public hospital in the South Brisbane area, Queensland. This page shows its waiting times for Keyhole joint surgery in 2024–25, beside the figures for Queensland and for Australia.

The source publishes this surgery as "Arthroscopy".

Figures for this hospital

Each tile shows one figure for Keyhole joint surgery at Queensland Children's Hospital.

A rank compares this hospital with every public hospital in Australia that published the same figure for the same period. The page shows a rank only on a current published figure. It never ranks a withheld or unreported figure. It also never ranks a figure from an earlier period.

Median wait, Queensland Children's Hospital
64 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank53rd of 150 nationally

Change on the year before+3 days

Waiting more than 365 days, Queensland Children's Hospital
4.7%2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank43rd of 80 nationally

Patients treated, Queensland Children's Hospital
64 surgeries2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Compared with the state and Australia

The state and national rows cover every public hospital that reported Keyhole joint surgery. They are never ranked.

This table scrolls sideways on a narrow screen.

Keyhole joint surgery: Queensland Children's Hospital, Queensland and Australia2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Who the figures coverMedian waitWaiting more than 365 daysPatients treated
Queensland Children's Hospital64 days4.7%64 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)79 days7.7%1,582 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days7.1%8,779 surgeries

Shorter waits nearby

Queensland Children's Hospital has 8 public hospitals on its list of nearby public hospitals. The open hospitals below come from that list, nearest first, and each published a shorter median wait for Keyhole joint surgery than Queensland Children's Hospital did. Each distance is measured in a straight line.

  1. Mater Adult Hospitalless than 1 kilometre away59 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026
  2. Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital9 kilometres away55 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026

How this hospital's wait has changed

The median wait for Keyhole joint surgery at Queensland Children's Hospital has risen from 61 days in 2016–17 to 64 days in 2024–25. The earlier figure is from 2016–17, released 19 August 2026, and the latest is from 2024–25, released 19 August 2026.

Each chart shows the median wait for each year the source published it. A year with no published figure is a gap in the line, and the table under the chart gives the reason.

Keyhole joint surgery: median wait by financial year, Queensland Children's Hospital, Queensland and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
0501002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25
  • Queensland Children's Hospital
  • Queensland
  • Australia
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Keyhole joint surgery: median wait by financial year, Queensland Children's Hospital, Queensland and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Financial yearQueensland Children's HospitalQueenslandAustralia
2016–1761 days64 days68 days
2017–1847 days76 days72 days
2018–1969 days79 days75 days
2019–2042 days78 days76 days
2020–2146 days79 days89 days
2021–2298 days69 days85 days
2022–23100 days85 days86 days
2023–2461 days82 days78 days
2024–2564 days79 days78 days

All planned surgery at Queensland Children's Hospital

Keyhole joint surgery at every public hospital in Australia

Keyhole joint surgery in Queensland

What this page leaves out

Private hospitals are excluded. This page covers public hospitals only, so it shows no private hospital.

Before you use these figures

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Where this data comes from

  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and intended procedure, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-procedure/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, mapping details extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reported measures and their codes in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reported measures, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reported-measures/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit mappings to health networks and states in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-unit-mappings/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/