Surgery Waits

Tendon release waiting time at South Coast District Hospital

The median wait for tendon release at this public hospital in the Victor Harbor area of South Australia was 138 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
138 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 26 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Women's and Children's Hospital, about 72 km away, at 51 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Tendon 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Tendon release, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
South Coast District Hospital138 daysnot published11 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)44 days8.6%451 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published75 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)19 days9.4%191 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 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for tendon release by financial year at South Coast District Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25South Coast District Hospital 138Australia 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 periodSouth Coast District Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published22
2017–18not publishednot published29
2018–19not reported for this periodnot published29
2019–20not publishednot published28
2020–21not reported for this periodnot published30
2021–22not reported for this periodnot published23
2022–23not publishednot published28
2023–24not publishednot published45
2024–25138not published34

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

All surgery at South Coast District Hospital · Tendon release across Australia · Tendon release in South Australia