Dupuytren's contracture surgery waiting time at Cairns Hospital
The median wait for Dupuytren's contracture surgery — published by the source as "Dupytren's contracture release" — at this public hospital in the Cairns North area of Queensland was 155 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 155 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 23 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 36 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 354 days in 2019–20 to 155 days in 2024–25 — down 56% — while the national median rose from 128 days to 150 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Townsville University Hospital, about 288 km away, at 95 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns Hospital | 155 days | not published | 23 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 139 days | 13.8% | 318 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 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Cairns Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Cairns Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 83 | 99 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 104 | 95 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 98 | 105 |
| 2019–20 | 354 | 134 | 128 |
| 2020–21 | 265 | 175 | 190 |
| 2021–22 | 262 | 154 | 198 |
| 2022–23 | 373 | 125 | 202 |
| 2023–24 | 408 | 158 | 169 |
| 2024–25 | 155 | 139 | 150 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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