Tendon release waiting time at Sunshine Hospital

The median wait for tendon release at this public hospital in the Sunshine North area of Victoria was 52 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: 52 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 16 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 18 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 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 13 km away, at 6 days.

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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 Hospital	52 days	not published	16 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	19 days	9.4%	191 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	34 days	7.5%	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.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 13 km away6 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 15 km away22 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 43 km away4 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 59 km away93 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 88 km away7 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 Tendon release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Sunshine Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	21	22
2017–18	not published	21	29
2018–19	not published	14	29
2019–20	not reported for this period	8	28
2020–21	not published	6	30
2021–22	not published	5	23
2022–23	not published	10	28
2023–24	not published	64	45
2024–25	52	19	34

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

All surgery at Sunshine Hospital · Tendon release across Australia · Tendon release in Victoria