Trigger finger release waiting time at Wagga Wagga Hospital

The median wait for trigger finger release — published by the source as "Trigger finger/thumb release" — at this public hospital in the Turvey Park area of New South Wales was 356 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: 356 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 62 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 344 days in 2017–18 to 356 days in 2024–25 — up 3% — while the national median rose from 62 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 256 km away, at 99 days.

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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Trigger finger/thumb release, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Wagga Wagga Hospital	356 days	not published	12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	157 days	13.2%	509 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	58 days	7.2%	388 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.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 256 km away99 days
Moruya HospitalNSW · about 261 km away101 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 341 km away369 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 351 km away16 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 354 km away69 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 354 km away284 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 360 km away52 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 361 km away101 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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.

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	Wagga Wagga Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	89	60
2017–18	344	97	62
2018–19	340	117	72
2019–20	not published	141	77
2020–21	325	138	88
2021–22	275	144	96
2022–23	446	166	107
2023–24	not published	140	86
2024–25	356	157	90

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

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