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Carpal tunnel surgery waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 96 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 71 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Carpal tunnel release".

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

71 public hospitals in New South Wales reported carpal tunnel surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

14 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 71 days marks the national median.

Carpal tunnel release in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Deniliquin Hospital 1 day not published 10 surgeries
2 Moree Hospital 13 days not published 13 surgeries
3 Singleton Hospital 24 days not published 16 surgeries
4 Cooma Hospital and Health Service 42 days not published 39 surgeries
4 Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics 42 days not published 29 surgeries
4 Tweed Valley Hospital 42 days 0.0% 66 surgeries
7 Armidale Hospital 48 days not published 48 surgeries
8 Grafton Base Hospital 49 days 0.0% 57 surgeries
8 Griffith Base Hospital 49 days not published 19 surgeries
8 Narrabri Hospital 49 days not published 13 surgeries
11 Ballina District Hospital 52 days not published 13 surgeries
11 Lismore Base Hospital 52 days not published 28 surgeries
13 Bowral Hospital 53 days not published 21 surgeries
14 Cessnock Hospital 54 days not published 12 surgeries
15 Casino and District Memorial Hospital 62 days 0.0% 53 surgeries
16 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 64 days 0.0% 53 surgeries
17 Hawkesbury Hospital 66 days 1.9% 52 surgeries
18 Westmead Hospital 72 days 21.0% 62 surgeries
19 Moruya Hospital 76 days not published 29 surgeries
20 Orange Health Service 78 days 0.0% 70 surgeries
21 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 79 days 0.0% 57 surgeries
22 Lithgow Hospital 83 days not published 20 surgeries
23 Manning Hospital 84 days 1.6% 61 surgeries
24 Cowra Health Service 87 days not published 20 surgeries
24 Northern Beaches Hospital 87 days not published 13 surgeries
26 Auburn Hospital 88 days 1.5% 133 surgeries
26 Shellharbour Hospital 88 days not published 49 surgeries
28 Royal North Shore Hospital 89 days 0.0% 127 surgeries
29 Wyong Hospital 95 days 14.8% 81 surgeries
30 South East Regional Hospital 103 days not published 11 surgeries
30 Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital 103 days 14.4% 202 surgeries
32 Belmont Hospital 105 days 9.5% 158 surgeries
33 Tamworth Hospital 111 days not published 42 surgeries
34 Goulburn Base Hospital 112 days 0.0% 54 surgeries
35 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 117 days 1.5% 68 surgeries
36 Kempsey District Hospital 125 days not published 37 surgeries
37 Prince of Wales Hospital 127 days not published 13 surgeries
37 Wollongong Hospital 127 days not published 22 surgeries
39 Wauchope District Memorial Hospital 128 days not published 32 surgeries
40 Wagga Wagga Hospital 142 days 8.7% 115 surgeries
41 Concord Repatriation Hospital 158 days 0.0% 64 surgeries
42 Gosford Hospital 167 days not published 44 surgeries
42 Shoalhaven Hospital 167 days not published 39 surgeries
44 Broken Hill Hospital 189 days not published 17 surgeries
45 Liverpool Hospital 206 days not published 19 surgeries
46 Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital 224 days not published 17 surgeries
47 Mount Druitt Hospital 237 days not published 43 surgeries
48 Nepean Hospital 253 days 12.1% 58 surgeries
49 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 254 days not published 20 surgeries
50 Canterbury Hospital 271 days not published 29 surgeries
51 Fairfield Hospital 282 days 6.9% 72 surgeries
52 Coffs Harbour Hospital 283 days 23.5% 85 surgeries
53 Blacktown Hospital 309 days not published 11 surgeries
54 Bathurst Base Hospital 331 days 35.9% 64 surgeries
55 Dubbo Hospital 340 days 37.2% 94 surgeries
55 Maitland Hospital 340 days 48.3% 58 surgeries
57 John Hunter Hospital 365 days not published 24 surgeries
unranked Campbelltown Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Glen Innes Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Inverell Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Lachlan Health Service - Forbes not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Mudgee Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Muswellbrook Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Queanbeyan Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Ryde Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone not published not published not published
unranked St George Hospital NSW not published not published not published
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Sutherland Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Temora Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Young Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Gosford · near Liverpool · near Penrith · near Randwick · near St Leonards · near Westmead · near Wollongong.

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The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 96 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Carpal tunnel surgery waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/carpal-tunnel-surgery/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/carpal-tunnel-surgery/nsw/), 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.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in New South Wales.