Dupuytren's contracture surgery waiting time at Cooma Hospital and Health Service
Half of patients at Cooma Hospital and Health Service waited 132 days or less for Dupuytren's contracture surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Dupytren's contracture release". This public hospital is in the Polo Flat area of New South Wales.
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
- 132 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 63 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 30 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 140 days in 2021–22 to 132 days in 2024–25 — down 6% — while the national median fell from 198 days to 150 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooma Hospital and Health Service | 132 days | not published | 11 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 329 days | 27.7% | 589 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.
Shoalhaven Hospital, NSW · about 202 km away: 341 days
Wagga Wagga Hospital, NSW · about 203 km away: 358 days
Shellharbour Hospital, NSW · about 243 km away: 350 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 309 km away: 227 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 310 km away: 346 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 311 km away: 369 days
Bathurst Base Hospital, NSW · about 318 km away: 365 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 321 km away: 203 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Cooma Hospital and Health Service
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Cooma Hospital and Health Service (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 213 | 99 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 214 | 95 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 234 | 105 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 257 | 128 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 313 | 190 |
| 2021–22 | 140 | 311 | 198 |
| 2022–23 | 61 | 317 | 202 |
| 2023–24 | 49 | 321 | 169 |
| 2024–25 | 132 | 329 | 150 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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