Tendon release waiting time at Wyong Hospital

The median wait for tendon release at this public hospital in the Kanwal area of New South Wales was 79 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 79 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 31 days in 2018–19 to 79 days in 2024–25 — up 155% — while the national median rose from 29 days to 34 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gosford Hospital, about 22 km away, at 23 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Tendon release, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Wyong Hospital	79 days	not published	11 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	44 days	8.6%	451 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	34 days	7.5%	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.

Gosford HospitalNSW · about 22 km away23 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 43 km away6 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 60 km away90 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 68 km away97 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 73 km away3 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 73 km away1 day
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 75 km away7 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 75 km away26 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 Tendon release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Wyong Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	21	22
2017–18	not published	29	29
2018–19	31	29	29
2019–20	79	46	28
2020–21	85	48	30
2021–22	not published	48	23
2022–23	not published	61	28
2023–24	49	62	45
2024–25	79	44	34

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

All surgery at Wyong Hospital · Tendon release across Australia · Tendon release in New South Wales