Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Wollongong Hospital
Half of patients at Wollongong Hospital waited 127 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 Wollongong 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
- 127 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 22 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 131 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 250 days in 2016–17 to 127 days in 2024–25 — down 49% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Shellharbour Hospital, about 15 km away, at 88 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wollongong Hospital | 127 days | not published | 22 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.
Shellharbour Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 88 days
Bowral Hospital, NSW · about 43 km away: 53 days
Shoalhaven Hospital, NSW · about 56 km away: 167 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 56 km away: 117 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 56 km away: 206 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 60 km away: 271 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 63 km away: 282 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 64 km away: 88 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Wollongong Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Wollongong Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 250 | 78 | 56 |
| 2017–18 | 251 | 78 | 61 |
| 2018–19 | 308 | 85 | 62 |
| 2019–20 | 201 | 91 | 70 |
| 2020–21 | 277 | 91 | 80 |
| 2021–22 | 298 | 99 | 82 |
| 2022–23 | 148 | 104 | 83 |
| 2023–24 | 191 | 87 | 72 |
| 2024–25 | 127 | 96 | 71 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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