Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Gawler Health Service

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Gawler area of South Australia was 38 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: 38 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 160 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 28 days in 2017–18 to 38 days in 2024–25 — up 36% — while the national median rose from 61 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Angaston District Hospital, about 29 km away, at 32 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Carpal tunnel release, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Gawler Health Service	38 days	not published	29 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	49 days	2.8%	808 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.

Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away110 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 27 km away86 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 29 km away32 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 38 km away50 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 39 km away47 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 51 km away126 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 65 km away99 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 76 km away30 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 Carpal tunnel release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Gawler Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	33	56
2017–18	28	38	61
2018–19	37	36	62
2019–20	34	45	70
2020–21	82	65	80
2021–22	27	69	82
2022–23	18	72	83
2023–24	14	57	72
2024–25	38	49	71

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

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