Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS)

Your health. Our purpose.

STARS is a specialist rehabilitation and surgical service focussed on providing individualised care and exceptional health outcomes.

Located at the Herston Health Precinct, STARS is part of a collaborative community home to more than 30 health facilities, medical research institutes, universities and organisations. The Precinct is made up of 13,000 clinical and non-clinical staff, scientists, researchers and students, working together to deliver excellence in health.

Welcome to STARS

Here is a short video to familiarise yourself with STARS and the easy check-in process.

With 100 beds for rehabilitation, STARS is one of the largest specialist rehabilitation services in the southern hemisphere.

Low complexity, elective, short stay surgical procedures will be available across a range of targeted specialty areas including:

Ears, Nose and Throat (ENT)
General surgery
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedics
Urology

Latest news

The mum of eight, who has four existing children aged between 10 and one years of age, had not planned another child – when she and her husband naturally conceived the quadruplets, taking them by immense surprise.

21 July 2026

Extremely rare identical girl quadruplets born at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital

Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital has delivered four spontaneously conceived identical quadruplet girls, sharing one placenta and split from one singular fertilised egg.

News , Metro North , RBWH

Caption: RBWH Foundation's annual Giving Day raised more than $700,000 to fund patient care and research initiatives.

16 July 2026

Queenslanders unite to support RBWH and STARS

The generosity of Queenslanders was on full display recently as RBWH Foundation’s annual Giving Day raised funds to develop and deliver world leading care.

News , Metro North , RBWH