Trigger finger release waiting time at John Hunter Hospital

The median wait for trigger finger release — published by the source as "Trigger finger/thumb release" — at this public hospital in the Rankin Park area of New South Wales was 421 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: 421 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 64 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 102 days in 2016–17 to 421 days in 2024–25 — up 313% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Belmont Hospital, about 12 km away, at 323 days.

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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
John Hunter Hospital	421 days	not published	11 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	157 days	13.2%	509 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	90 days	9.0%	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.

Belmont HospitalNSW · about 12 km away323 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 26 km away341 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 110 km away75 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye HospitalNSW · about 114 km away347 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 116 km away206 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 117 km away140 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 118 km away87 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 121 km away174 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 Trigger finger/thumb release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	John Hunter Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	102	89	60
2017–18	96	97	62
2018–19	68	117	72
2019–20	144	141	77
2020–21	140	138	88
2021–22	101	144	96
2022–23	196	166	107
2023–24	283	140	86
2024–25	421	157	90

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

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