Dupuytren's contracture surgery waiting time at Royal North Shore 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 St Leonards 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: 121 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 40 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 26 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 143 days in 2018–19 to 121 days in 2024–25 — down 15% — while the national median rose from 105 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Dupytren's contracture release, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal North Shore Hospital	121 days	not published	40 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

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

Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye HospitalNSW · about 6 km away375 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 9 km away203 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 20 km away227 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 27 km away346 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 45 km away369 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 68 km away295 days
Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 88 km away350 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 98 km away347 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	Royal North Shore Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	213	99
2017–18	not published	214	95
2018–19	143	234	105
2019–20	not published	257	128
2020–21	200	313	190
2021–22	145	311	198
2022–23	162	317	202
2023–24	104	321	169
2024–25	121	329	150

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

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