Dupuytren's contracture surgery waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

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 Perth 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: 399 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 28 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 62 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 236 days in 2016–17 to 399 days in 2024–25 — up 69% — while the national median rose from 99 days to 150 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 5 km away, at 295 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
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	399 days	not published	28 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 5 km away295 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 8 km away149 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away101 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away154 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 25 km away50 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away77 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 39 km away344 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 65 km away45 days

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

How the wait has changed

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
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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 Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	236	98	99
2017–18	128	98	95
2018–19	123	140	105
2019–20	139	146	128
2020–21	240	139	190
2021–22	346	154	198
2022–23	315	167	202
2023–24	282	125	169
2024–25	399	125	150

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

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