Surgery Waits

Tendon release waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]

The median wait for tendon release at this public hospital in the Darlinghurst area of New South Wales was 3 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
3 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
22 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 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 1 day in 2022–23 to 3 days in 2024–25 — up 200% — while the national median rose from 28 days to 34 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 13 km away, at 1 day.

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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
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]3 daysnot published22 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)44 days8.6%451 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)34 days7.5%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for tendon release by financial year at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 3NSW 44Australia 34
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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 periodSt Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period2122
2017–18not published2929
2018–19not reported for this period2929
2019–20not reported for this period4628
2020–21not published4830
2021–22not published4823
2022–2316128
2023–2446245
2024–2534434

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

All surgery at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] · Tendon release across Australia · Tendon release in New South Wales