--- title: Emergency department busyness by day and hour, Queensland resource: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/ publisher: Queensland Health licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-10-05 rows: 6720 fields: 8 source: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/datastore/dump/1cc1494d-1df3-4428-a6b7-16853a347e51 source_sha256: 06894357012af172954e3a62799d2bc19f2e5f0d562a3ae48f86dce2f6290e1a language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Emergency department busyness by day and hour, Queensland How busy each Queensland public emergency department usually is by day of the week and time band, the figures behind Queensland Health's busyness charts. 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: Busiest times at Queensland emergency departments, QLD ED busyness trends, When is the emergency department least busy Queensland. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-05/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/latest/data.csv (393 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/latest/data.xlsx (235 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/latest/data.json (1.1 MB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/latest/data.parquet (39 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/latest/data.sqlite (541 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/latest/data.duckdb (300 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/latest/data.ndjson (1.1 MB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/latest/data.arrow (90 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/latest/data.csv.gz (43 KB) Pinned version 2026-10-05: `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-05/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-emergency-department-busyness/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-emergency-department-busyness/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-emergency-department-busyness/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-emergency-department-busyness/aggregate?group=time_band&metric=avg.value 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-emergency-department-busyness/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `row_id` | integer | _id | The portal's row number. | | `facility_code` | string | FacilityCode | Kept as text to keep the leading zeros. | | `day_of_week` | integer | DayOfWeekNo | 1 for Monday to 7 for Sunday. | | `day_name` | string | DayName | | | `day_name_long` | string | DayNameLong | | | `time_band` | integer | TimeBandNumber | | | `value` | number | DataValue | | | `data_uploaded` | datetime | DataUploadedTimestamp | In Queensland time. | Key: `facility_code, day_of_week, time_band`. ## Versions - 2026-10-05: 6720 rows, 8 fields, sha256 06894357012a (0 added, 0 removed, 6720 changed). https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-05/ - 2026-10-04: 6720 rows, 8 fields, sha256 86cb67e49c98 (0 added, 0 removed, 6720 changed). https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-04/ - 2026-10-03: 6720 rows, 8 fields, sha256 f76e38d101ec (0 added, 0 removed, 6720 changed). https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-03/ - 2026-10-02: 6720 rows, 8 fields, sha256 b010463cde28. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-02/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/history.tar.zst ## Part of Emergency department live data, Queensland - [Public hospital emergency departments and minor injury clinics, Queensland, live list](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-facilities/) - [People waiting and median waits in emergency departments, Queensland, live](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-waits-now/) ## Same subject, other publishers - [Emergency department patients seen on time by hospital and triage category, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-ed-patients-seen-on-time/) (Cth) - [Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/) (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) - [Measles public exposure sites, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-measles-exposure-sites/) (Vic) - [Air quality monitoring by hour, ACT](https://publicdata.au/d/act-air-quality/) (ACT) - [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, Hospital Performance, sourced 4 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/hospital-performance, 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, Hospital Performance, sourced 4 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/hospital-performance, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-05/ Harvard: Queensland Health (2026) Emergency department busyness by day and hour, Queensland, version 2026-10-05 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 4 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-05/ Markdown: Data: [Emergency department live data, Queensland](https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/hospital-performance), Queensland Health, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 4 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-05/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Emergency department busyness by day and hour as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-05/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 Emergency department busyness by day and hour in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-05/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 6,720 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-emergency-department-busyness/v/2026-10-05/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Emergency department busyness by day and hour updated? Queensland Health updates it continuously. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Emergency department busyness by day and hour 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 Emergency department busyness by day and hour? No. The publisher is Queensland Health, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/hospital-performance. 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. ### What is in each row? One emergency department or clinic, one day of the week and one time band, with the value the publisher uses to chart how busy that facility usually is at that time. ### What does the value measure? The publisher does not document it in the data. It is the figure behind the busyness chart on its wait time pages and is kept as published. Time bands are numbered 0 to 23. ## 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-emergency-department-busyness.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/qld-emergency-department-busyness.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.