Trigger finger release waiting time at Dubbo Hospital
Half of patients at Dubbo Hospital waited 369 days or less for trigger finger release in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Trigger finger/thumb release". This public hospital is in the Dubbo 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
- 369 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 18 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 63 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 388 days in 2022–23 to 369 days in 2024–25 — down 5% — while the national median fell from 107 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 128 km away, at 99 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Trigger finger/thumb 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubbo Hospital | 369 days | not published | 18 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 157 days | 13.2% | 509 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 90 days | 9.0% | 1696 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.
Orange Health Service, NSW · about 128 km away: 99 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 279 km away: 284 days
Maitland Hospital, NSW · about 280 km away: 341 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 281 km away: 140 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 288 km away: 174 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 291 km away: 206 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 292 km away: 101 days
Belmont Hospital, NSW · about 297 km away: 323 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
- Dubbo Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Dubbo Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 89 | 60 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 97 | 62 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 117 | 72 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 141 | 77 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 138 | 88 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 144 | 96 |
| 2022–23 | 388 | 166 | 107 |
| 2023–24 | 352 | 140 | 86 |
| 2024–25 | 369 | 157 | 90 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Dubbo Hospital · Trigger finger release across Australia · Trigger finger release in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales