Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Bowral Hospital
Half of patients at Bowral Hospital waited 53 days or less for carpal tunnel surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Carpal tunnel release". This public hospital is in the Bowral 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
- 53 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 21 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 160 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 47 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 182 days in 2016–17 to 53 days in 2024–25 — down 71% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Carpal tunnel 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowral Hospital | 53 days | not published | 21 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 96 days | 8.9% | 2847 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 71 days | 5.2% | 9994 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 71 days marks the national median.
Shellharbour Hospital, NSW · about 39 km away: 88 days
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 43 km away: 127 days
Shoalhaven Hospital, NSW · about 45 km away: 167 days
Goulburn Base Hospital, NSW · about 71 km away: 112 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 78 km away: 206 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 82 km away: 117 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 82 km away: 282 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 85 km away: 253 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Bowral Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Bowral Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 182 | 78 | 56 |
| 2017–18 | 153 | 78 | 61 |
| 2018–19 | 113 | 85 | 62 |
| 2019–20 | 180 | 91 | 70 |
| 2020–21 | 255 | 91 | 80 |
| 2021–22 | 176 | 99 | 82 |
| 2022–23 | 100 | 104 | 83 |
| 2023–24 | 48 | 87 | 72 |
| 2024–25 | 53 | 96 | 71 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Bowral Hospital · Carpal tunnel surgery across Australia · Carpal tunnel surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales