Surgery Waits

Trapped nerve release (other nerves) waiting time at Belmont Hospital

Half of patients at Belmont Hospital waited 93 days or less for trapped nerve release (other nerves) in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Nerve decompression". This public hospital is in the Valentine area of New South Wales.

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
93 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 17 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 nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal North Shore Hospital, about 98 km away, at 64 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Nerve decompression" 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 Nerve decompression, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Belmont Hospital93 daysnot published10 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)115 days13.2%552 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)96 days10.9%695 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 96 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 nerve decompression by financial year at Belmont Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Belmont Hospital 93NSW 115Australia 96
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Nerve decompression, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBelmont Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published9283
2017–18not published9990
2018–19not published8777
2019–20not published8180
2020–21not published126114
2021–22not published10692
2022–23not published137121
2023–24not published112103
2024–259311596

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

All surgery at Belmont Hospital · Trapped nerve release (other nerves) across Australia · Trapped nerve release (other nerves) in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales