Dupuytren's contracture surgery waiting time at Fremantle 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 Fremantle area of Western Australia, 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: 154 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 44 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 35 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 95 days in 2016–17 to 154 days in 2024–25 — up 62% — while the national median rose from 99 days to 150 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bentley Health Service, about 18 km away, at 149 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
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service	154 days	not published	44 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	125 days	16.5%	267 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away295 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 16 km away399 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 18 km away149 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 20 km away101 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 26 km away344 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away50 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 36 km away77 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 53 km away45 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	Fremantle Hospital and Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	95	98	99
2017–18	84	98	95
2018–19	238	140	105
2019–20	126	146	128
2020–21	122	139	190
2021–22	210	154	198
2022–23	154	167	202
2023–24	182	125	169
2024–25	154	125	150

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

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