Surgery Waits

Tendon release waiting time at Sunshine Coast University Hospital

The median wait for tendon release at this public hospital in the Birtinya area of Queensland 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
29 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 fallen from 6 days in 2023–24 to 3 days in 2024–25 — down 50% — while the national median fell from 45 days to 34 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Sunshine Coast University Hospital3 daysnot published29 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)35 days4.8%189 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 Sunshine Coast University Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Sunshine Coast University Hospital 3QLD 35Australia 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 periodSunshine Coast University Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period1922
2017–18not published2529
2018–19not published4029
2019–20not published5628
2020–21not published4830
2021–22not published3623
2022–23not published4828
2023–2463745
2024–2533534

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

All surgery at Sunshine Coast University Hospital · Tendon release across Australia · Tendon release in Queensland