--- title: Elective surgery by urgency category and hospital, Queensland, September quarter 2025 resource: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/ publisher: Queensland Health licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2025-12-10 rows: 200 fields: 14 source: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/d660d925-400f-42ba-8245-a08bfc18abf4/resource/d5b2d273-6eca-428d-8145-10a07fcf81d0/download/es_quarterly_bycat_sep25.csv source_sha256: 8e1c861efa2cfa6f5edf9d763f6f8b1d5c37d3f4d37fb77edb02d8a17732f0ad language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Elective surgery by urgency category and hospital, Queensland, September quarter 2025 Elective surgery at each Queensland public hospital in the September quarter 2025 by urgency category, with patients treated, patients waiting and the share within the recommended time. Published by Queensland Health under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Queensland Health has not endorsed this site. Also called: Elective surgery waiting times Queensland, QLD surgery waiting list by hospital, Queensland Health elective surgery data. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/latest/data.csv (17 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/latest/data.xlsx (22 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/latest/data.json (86 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/latest/data.parquet (15 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/latest/data.sqlite (49 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/latest/data.duckdb (200 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/latest/data.ndjson (84 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/latest/data.arrow (14 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/latest/data.csv.gz (4.5 KB) Pinned version 2025-12-10: `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/rows?category=eq.ALL&facility_code=neq.99999&limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/aggregate?group=facility&metric=sum.long_waits&category=eq.ALL&facility_code=neq.99999 Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Smaller files - by `category`: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/by/category/index.json lists 4 files ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `facility_code` | string | Facility_Code | Kept as text. | | `facility` | string | Facility_Name | A public hospital, or a group such as Queensland Reporting Hospitals for the state total. | | `report_month` | string | Report_Month | The last month of the quarter, as the publisher writes it, such as Sep-25. | | `category` | string | Category | 1, 2, 3, or ALL for every category. | | `treated` | integer | Vol_Treated | | | `percent_treated_in_time` | number | Percent_Treated_InTime | | | `percent_change_treated_on_prior_year` | number | Percent_Variation_Treated_Prior_Year | | | `waiting` | integer | Vol_Waiting | | | `long_waits` | integer | Vol_LongWaits | | | `percent_waiting_in_time` | number | Percent_Waiting_InTime_Total | | | `data_last_update` | date | data_last_update | | | `long_waits_ready_for_surgery` | integer | Vol_LongWaits_RFS | | | `long_waits_not_ready_for_surgery` | integer | Vol_LongWaits_NRFS | | | `percent_waiting_in_time_ready_for_surgery` | number | Percent_Waiting_InTime_RFS | | Key: `facility_code, category`. ## Versions - 2025-12-10: 200 rows, 14 fields, sha256 8e1c861efa2c. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/history.tar.zst ## Part of Elective surgery performance by hospital, Queensland - [Elective surgery by specialty and hospital, Queensland, September quarter 2025](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-specialty/) ## Same subject, other publishers - [Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/) (Cth) - [Emergency department patients seen on time by hospital and triage category, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-ed-patients-seen-on-time/) (Cth) - [Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/) (Cth) - [Public hospital locations, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-hospitals/) (SA) - [Private hospital locations, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-private-hospitals/) (SA) - [Ambulance Victoria response times by council area, 2018-19](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-ambulance-response-times-by-lga/) (Vic) - [Ambulance Victoria response times by town and city, 2017-18](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-ambulance-response-times-by-town/) (Vic) - [Modified Monash Model 2023 remoteness by suburb and postcode, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-modified-monash-model-by-suburb/) (Cth) - [Deaths by suicide by state and age group, five-year periods, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-suicide-deaths-by-age/) (Cth) - [Deaths by suicide by state, sex and year, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-suicide-deaths-by-state/) (Cth) - [Council food safety enforcement in the processor and manufacturer sector, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-food-enforcement-processor-manufacturer/) (SA) - [Council food safety enforcement in the retail sector, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-food-enforcement-retail/) (SA) ## Attribution and citation Queensland Health, Queensland Government, Elective surgery, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/elective-surgery, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Queensland Health, Queensland Government, Elective surgery, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/elective-surgery, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/ Harvard: Queensland Health (2025) Elective surgery by urgency category and hospital, Queensland, September quarter 2025, version 2025-12-10 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/ Markdown: Data: [Elective surgery performance by hospital, Queensland](https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/elective-surgery), Queensland Health, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Elective surgery by urgency category and hospital, Queensland as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Elective surgery by urgency category and hospital, Queensland in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 200 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Elective surgery by urgency category and hospital, Queensland updated? Queensland Health releases it quarterly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Elective surgery by urgency category and hospital, Queensland commercially? Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Elective surgery by urgency category and hospital, Queensland? No. The publisher is Queensland Health, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/elective-surgery. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### How do I get only the rows for one category? Every version has one JSON file per value of category, 4 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/by/category/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/qld-elective-surgery-by-category/v/2025-12-10/by/category/1.json holds the 50 rows where category is 1. ### What is in each row? One public hospital and one urgency category, 1, 2, 3 or ALL, for the quarter, with the patients treated and the share treated within the recommended time, the change in patients treated on a year before, the patients waiting, those waiting longer than recommended, and the share waiting within the recommended time, split by whether the patient is ready for surgery. ### What does a dash mean? Queensland Health writes a dash where it gives no figure for a hospital, such as a percentage with no patients behind it. Those cells are null here and flagged as suppressed. A few cells read NULL, and those are null too. ### Which quarter is it? The quarter ending September 2025. Queensland Health adds a file each quarter. This table is fixed to that file, and later quarters need the entry pointed at the new file. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/qld-elective-surgery-by-category.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/qld-elective-surgery-by-category.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.