Surgery Waits

Tendon release waiting time at Queensland Children's Hospital

The median wait for tendon release at this public hospital in the South Brisbane area of Queensland was 58 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
58 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
34 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 26 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 45 days in 2016–17 to 58 days in 2024–25 — up 29% — while the national median rose from 22 days to 34 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Princess Alexandra Hospital, about 2 km away, at 33 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Tendon release" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Tendon release, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Queensland Children's Hospital58 daysnot published34 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)35 days4.8%189 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)34 days7.5%1016 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 34 days marks the national median.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for tendon release by financial year at Queensland Children's Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Queensland Children's Hospital 58QLD 35Australia 34
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Tendon release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodQueensland Children's Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17451922
2017–18432529
2018–19644029
2019–20625628
2020–21504830
2021–22393623
2022–23444828
2023–24433745
2024–25583534

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

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