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Carpal tunnel surgery waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 53 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.

38 public hospitals in Victoria 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.

3 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 Victoria 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 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 22 days 0.0% 151 surgeries
2 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 23 days 0.0% 62 surgeries
3 Bass Coast Health 25 days not published 26 surgeries
4 Sandringham Hospital 28 days not published 40 surgeries
4 St Vincent's On the Park 28 days 1.8% 111 surgeries
6 West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] 29 days 0.0% 78 surgeries
7 South West Healthcare [Camperdown] 39 days not published 18 surgeries
8 Frankston Public Surgical Centre 43 days 0.0% 125 surgeries
9 Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 44 days not published 40 surgeries
9 University Hospital Geelong 44 days 0.0% 119 surgeries
11 Frankston Hospital 48 days 0.0% 96 surgeries
12 The Alfred 49 days 0.0% 98 surgeries
13 Williamstown Hospital 50 days not published 30 surgeries
14 Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] 52 days 0.0% 102 surgeries
15 Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley Health 53 days not published 40 surgeries
15 Northeast Health Wangaratta 53 days 0.0% 100 surgeries
17 Box Hill Hospital 56 days not published 43 surgeries
18 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 57 days 8.2% 97 surgeries
19 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 58 days not published 18 surgeries
20 Blackburn Public Surgical Centre 60 days 0.0% 105 surgeries
20 Yarra Ranges Health 60 days not published 48 surgeries
22 Dandenong Hospital 65 days 4.1% 145 surgeries
22 South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] 65 days not published 36 surgeries
24 Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh] 66 days not published 16 surgeries
25 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 67 days 4.3% 94 surgeries
26 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 75 days 0.8% 125 surgeries
27 The Bendigo Hospital 77 days not published 45 surgeries
28 Angliss Hospital 83 days 0.0% 90 surgeries
29 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 85 days not published 34 surgeries
30 Western Hospital [Footscray] 93 days not published 14 surgeries
31 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 100 days not published 25 surgeries
32 Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] 115 days not published 15 surgeries
33 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 138 days 6.1% 132 surgeries
34 Werribee Mercy Hospital 183 days 15.3% 59 surgeries
35 Sunshine Hospital 482 days 62.9% 62 surgeries
unranked Broadmeadows Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Casey Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre not published not published 8 surgeries

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Box Hill · near Clayton · near Fitzroy · near Frankston · near Heidelberg · near Prahran · near St Albans.

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The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 53 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

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