Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Mount Druitt Hospital
Half of patients at Mount Druitt Hospital waited 237 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 Rooty Hill 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
- 237 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 43 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 147 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 84 days in 2016–17 to 237 days in 2024–25 — up 182% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 15 km away, at 72 days.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Druitt Hospital | 237 days | not published | 43 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.
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 8 km away: 309 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 11 km away: 253 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 282 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 72 days
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 17 km away: 66 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 206 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 22 km away: 88 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 26 km away: 158 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Mount Druitt Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Mount Druitt Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 84 | 78 | 56 |
| 2017–18 | 75 | 78 | 61 |
| 2018–19 | 53 | 85 | 62 |
| 2019–20 | 78 | 91 | 70 |
| 2020–21 | 82 | 91 | 80 |
| 2021–22 | 86 | 99 | 82 |
| 2022–23 | 98 | 104 | 83 |
| 2023–24 | 106 | 87 | 72 |
| 2024–25 | 237 | 96 | 71 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Mount Druitt Hospital · Carpal tunnel surgery across Australia · Carpal tunnel surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales