Dupuytren's contracture surgery waiting time at The Alfred

The median wait for Dupuytren's contracture surgery — published by the source as "Dupytren's contracture release" — at this public hospital in the South Yarra area of Victoria was 70 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: 70 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 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 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 68 days in 2017–18 to 70 days in 2024–25 — up 3% — while the national median rose from 95 days to 150 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's On the Park, about 4 km away, at 32 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Dupytren's contracture release, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Alfred	70 days	not published	25 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.

St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 4 km away32 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 4 km away178 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away157 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 12 km away128 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 17 km away1231 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 22 km away44 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 24 km away74 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 25 km away201 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 Dupytren's contracture release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Alfred (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	71	99
2017–18	68	60	95
2018–19	55	56	105
2019–20	44	71	128
2020–21	86	115	190
2021–22	not published	197	198
2022–23	not published	184	202
2023–24	85	110	169
2024–25	70	88	150

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

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