Dupuytren's contracture surgery waiting time at Cooma Hospital and Health Service
Median wait, long waits and volumes for Dupuytren's contracture surgery — published by the source as “Dupytren's contracture release” — at this public hospital in the Polo Flat area of New South Wales, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026
- Median wait
- 132 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 11 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 63 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 30 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 140 days in 2021–22 to 132 days in 2024–25 — down 6% — while the national median fell from 198 days to 150 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooma Hospital and Health Service | 132 days | not published | 11 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 329 days | 27.7% | 589 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 150 days | 17.9% | 1777 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Cooma Hospital and Health Service
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Cooma Hospital and Health Service (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 213 | 99 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 214 | 95 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 234 | 105 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 257 | 128 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 313 | 190 |
| 2021–22 | 140 | 311 | 198 |
| 2022–23 | 61 | 317 | 202 |
| 2023–24 | 49 | 321 | 169 |
| 2024–25 | 132 | 329 | 150 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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