Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Griffith Base Hospital
Half of patients at Griffith Base Hospital waited 49 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 Griffith 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
- 49 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 19 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 37 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 45 days in 2016–17 to 49 days in 2024–25 — up 9% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Deniliquin Hospital, about 170 km away, at 1 day.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Griffith Base Hospital | 49 days | not published | 19 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 96 days | 8.9% | 2847 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 53 days | 3.5% | 2456 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.
Wagga Wagga Hospital, NSW · about 152 km away: 142 days
Deniliquin Hospital, NSW · about 170 km away: 1 day
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], VIC · about 219 km away: 58 days
Northeast Health Wangaratta, VIC · about 232 km away: 53 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton], VIC · about 239 km away: 85 days
Cowra Health Service, NSW · about 249 km away: 87 days
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
- Griffith Base Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Griffith Base Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 45 | 78 | 56 |
| 2017–18 | 81 | 78 | 61 |
| 2018–19 | 63 | 85 | 62 |
| 2019–20 | 52 | 91 | 70 |
| 2020–21 | 43 | 91 | 80 |
| 2021–22 | 57 | 99 | 82 |
| 2022–23 | 51 | 104 | 83 |
| 2023–24 | 45 | 87 | 72 |
| 2024–25 | 49 | 96 | 71 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Griffith Base Hospital · Carpal tunnel surgery across Australia · Carpal tunnel surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales