Surgery Waits

Trigger finger release waiting time at Grafton Base Hospital

Half of patients at Grafton Base Hospital waited 33 days or less for trigger finger release in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Trigger finger/thumb release". This public hospital is in the Grafton 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
33 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 57 days in 2017–18 to 33 days in 2024–25 — down 42% — while the national median rose from 62 days to 90 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Trigger finger/thumb 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Trigger finger/thumb release, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Grafton Base Hospital33 daysnot published13 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)157 days13.2%509 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)89 days6.6%424 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)90 days9.0%1696 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for trigger finger/thumb release by financial year at Grafton Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Grafton Base Hospital 33NSW 157Australia 90
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Median wait in days for Trigger finger/thumb release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGrafton Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published8960
2017–18579762
2018–196811772
2019–205714177
2020–217813888
2021–228114496
2022–2366166107
2023–244214086
2024–253315790

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

All surgery at Grafton Base Hospital · Trigger finger release across Australia · Trigger finger release in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales