Tendon release waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

The median wait for tendon release at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 26 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: 26 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 84 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.4%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 12 days in 2016–17 to 26 days in 2024–25 — up 117% — while the national median rose from 22 days to 34 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 10 km away, at 1 day. Here, 2.4% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.5%.

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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
The Children's Hospital at Westmead	26 days	2.4%	84 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	44 days	8.6%	451 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.

Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away1 day
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 18 km away97 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 20 km away7 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 23 km away3 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 53 km away23 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 70 km away4 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 75 km away79 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 117 km away6 days

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

How the wait has changed

The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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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	The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	12	21	22
2017–18	43	29	29
2018–19	80	29	29
2019–20	not published	46	28
2020–21	14	48	30
2021–22	20	48	23
2022–23	94	61	28
2023–24	70	62	45
2024–25	26	44	34

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

All surgery at The Children's Hospital at Westmead · Tendon release across Australia · Tendon release in New South Wales