Trigger finger release waiting time at Royal North Shore Hospital
Half of patients at Royal North Shore Hospital waited 75 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 St Leonards 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
- 75 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 26 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 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 72 days in 2016–17 to 75 days in 2024–25 — up 4% — while the national median rose from 60 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal North Shore Hospital | 75 days | not published | 26 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.
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital, NSW · about 6 km away: 347 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 9 km away: 206 days
Sydney Children's Hospital, NSW · about 12 km away: 87 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 174 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 18 km away: 140 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 101 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 284 days
Belmont Hospital, NSW · about 98 km away: 323 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Royal North Shore Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal North Shore Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 72 | 89 | 60 |
| 2017–18 | 52 | 97 | 62 |
| 2018–19 | 104 | 117 | 72 |
| 2019–20 | 132 | 141 | 77 |
| 2020–21 | 69 | 138 | 88 |
| 2021–22 | 79 | 144 | 96 |
| 2022–23 | 62 | 166 | 107 |
| 2023–24 | 65 | 140 | 86 |
| 2024–25 | 75 | 157 | 90 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Royal North Shore Hospital · Trigger finger release across Australia · Trigger finger release in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales