Dupuytren's contracture surgery waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre
Half of patients at Flinders Medical Centre waited 128 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 Bedford Park area of South Australia.
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
- 128 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 13 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 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 103 days in 2016–17 to 128 days in 2024–25 — up 24% — while the national median rose from 99 days to 150 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is South Coast District Hospital, about 60 km away, at 18 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Dupytren's contracture 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flinders Medical Centre | 128 days | not published | 13 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 95 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 88 days | 11.6% | 492 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.
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA · about 11 km away: 207 days
Noarlunga Hospital, SA · about 15 km away: 134 days
South Coast District Hospital, SA · about 60 km away: 18 days
South West Healthcare [Camperdown], VIC · about 542 km away: 57 days
University Hospital Geelong, VIC · about 623 km away: 69 days
Sunshine Hospital, VIC · about 636 km away: 1231 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping], VIC · about 647 km away: 44 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], VIC · about 649 km away: 157 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Flinders Medical Centre
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Flinders Medical Centre (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 103 | not published | 99 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 50 | 95 |
| 2018–19 | not published | not published | 105 |
| 2019–20 | not published | not published | 128 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | not published | 190 |
| 2021–22 | not published | not published | 198 |
| 2022–23 | not published | not published | 202 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 96 | 169 |
| 2024–25 | 128 | not published | 150 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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