Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital
Half of patients at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital waited 79 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 Waitara 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
- 79 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 57 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
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 93 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 81 days in 2016–17 to 79 days in 2024–25 — down 2% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 16 km away, at 72 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.2%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital | 79 days | 0.0% | 57 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.
Northern Beaches Hospital, NSW · about 12 km away: 87 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 89 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 158 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 72 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 88 days
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 309 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital, NSW · about 21 km away: 103 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, NSW · about 22 km away: 42 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 81 | 78 | 56 |
| 2017–18 | 81 | 78 | 61 |
| 2018–19 | 55 | 85 | 62 |
| 2019–20 | 42 | 91 | 70 |
| 2020–21 | 58 | 91 | 80 |
| 2021–22 | 49 | 99 | 82 |
| 2022–23 | 83 | 104 | 83 |
| 2023–24 | 86 | 87 | 72 |
| 2024–25 | 79 | 96 | 71 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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