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Cairns Hospital

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Cairns Hospital

Hospital activity

Hospital activity
  • Hospital activity
  • Emergency care
  • Elective surgery
  • Specialist outpatient

Cairns Hospital provides community and specialist hospital services for Cairns and its immediate surroundings and is the major referral centre for Tropical North Queensland. It is the biggest hospital in the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service and it offers all major health specialties (medicine, surgery, women's health, paediatrics and mental health) and more than 30 sub-specialties.

Tier 3 Escalations

8

Total number of escalations

39 hrs and 30 mins

Average duration of escalation


Apr - Jun 2023
Beds and bed alternative for end of June 2023
Indicators Beds
Beds and bed alternatives 721
  • All data is preliminary and subject to change. "-" indicates data not available or not applicable.
Staffing information for end of June 2023
Indicators Doctors Nurses Health practitioners/ professional/technical
Staff 705 2,532 492
Change from June 2005 +296.2% +205.5% +316.8%
  • This data extract is from the Queensland Health Payroll System. The number of doctors, nurses and health professionals reflects the positions attached to the facility reported. It does not include staff who work at this facility but are attached to positions of other facilities.
  • All data is preliminary and subject to change. "-" indicates data not available or not applicable.
Quarterly hospital activity information for April, May, June 2023
Indicators Total
Patient admissions 22,983
Same day admissions 14,309
Overnight admissions 8,674
Emergency admissions 7,828
Outpatient services 68,813
Babies born 624

All data is preliminary and subject to change. "-" indicates data not available to determine calculation or not applicable.

Source: Outpatient services - Monthly Activity Collection (MAC) and Queensland Health Non-Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHNAPDC), Department of Health, Queensland

Source: Admissions and babies born - Queensland Hospitals Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC), Department of Health, Queensland

Radiation treatment

Radiation therapy services are available at five public hospitals in Queensland. Hospital services report on next available start dates for radiation therapy planning and treatment according to priority categories which are based on clinical need. More about the priority categories.

Monthly radiation information for June 2023
Indicators P2 high priority care P3 planned care
Average working days wait until the next available start date 6 8

All data is preliminary and subject to change. "-" indicates data not available to determine calculation or not applicable.

Hospital activity data source: Monthly Activity Collection, Queensland Health

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