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Carpal tunnel surgery near St Leonards

Near St Leonards, Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for carpal tunnel surgery in 2024–25: 42 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

5 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for carpal tunnel surgery, shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. 2 hospitals sit just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and are included because a referral can cross the line. 1 hospital has no current published median. It is listed last and never ranked; a figure the source withheld reads "not published". The source publishes this surgery as "Carpal tunnel release".

Hospitals in or near St Leonards

Carpal tunnel release at public hospitals in or near St Leonards, 2024–25, by median wait. Hospitals with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Where
1 Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics 42 days not published Camperdown, NSW. Outside this area, about 7 km from Royal North Shore Hospital.
2 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 79 days 0.0% Waitara, NSW. In this area.
3 Northern Beaches Hospital 87 days not published Frenchs Forest, NSW. In this area.
4 Royal North Shore Hospital 89 days 0.0% St Leonards, NSW. In this area.
5 Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital 103 days 14.4% Sydney, NSW. Outside this area, about 6 km from Royal North Shore Hospital.
unranked Ryde Hospital not published not published Denistone East, NSW. In this area.

This area covers Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Mona Vale Hospital, Northern Beaches Hospital, Royal North Shore Hospital and Ryde Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Northern Sydney". Distances are straight lines between hospital locations, rounded to the nearest kilometre; they are not travel distances. A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that.

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Near St Leonards, Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for carpal tunnel surgery in 2024–25: 42 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Carpal tunnel surgery near St Leonards: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/carpal-tunnel-surgery/near/st-leonards/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/carpal-tunnel-surgery/near/st-leonards/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

See every New South Wales hospital for carpal tunnel surgery, or every hospital in Northern Sydney.