Dupuytren's contracture surgery waiting time at Frankston Hospital

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 Frankston area of Victoria, 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: 115 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 22 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 22 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 145 days in 2016–17 to 115 days in 2024–25 — down 21% — while the national median rose from 99 days to 150 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Frankston Public Surgical Centre, about 1 km away, at 94 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Dupytren's contracture release, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Frankston Hospital	115 days	not published	22 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	88 days	11.6%	492 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	150 days	17.9%	1777 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 150 days marks the national median.

Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 1 km away94 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 21 km away201 days
The AlfredVIC · about 36 km away70 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 40 km away74 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 40 km away32 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 41 km away178 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 42 km away157 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 44 km away128 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Dupytren's contracture release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Frankston Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	145	71	99
2017–18	146	60	95
2018–19	247	56	105
2019–20	293	71	128
2020–21	169	115	190
2021–22	195	197	198
2022–23	198	184	202
2023–24	157	110	169
2024–25	115	88	150

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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