Surgery Waits

Dupuytren's contracture surgery waiting time at Toowoomba Hospital

The median wait for Dupuytren's contracture surgery — published by the source as "Dupytren's contracture release" — at this public hospital in the South Toowoomba area of Queensland was 118 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
118 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
16 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 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 279 days in 2016–17 to 118 days in 2024–25 — down 58% — while the national median rose from 99 days to 150 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Princess Alexandra Hospital, about 108 km away, at 49 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
Toowoomba Hospital118 daysnot published16 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)139 days13.8%318 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)150 days17.9%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for Dupytren's contracture release by financial year at Toowoomba Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Toowoomba Hospital 118QLD 139Australia 150
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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 periodToowoomba Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–172798399
2017–1822410495
2018–1926798105
2019–20324134128
2020–21317175190
2021–22240154198
2022–2367125202
2023–24106158169
2024–25118139150

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

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