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Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Alice Springs Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as “Carpal tunnel release” — at this public hospital in the Alice Springs area of Northern Territory, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait
22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
26 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 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 33 days in 2016–17 to 22 days in 2024–25 — down 33% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Carpal tunnel release, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Alice Springs Hospital22 daysnot published26 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published59 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)71 days5.2%9994 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for carpal tunnel release by financial year at Alice Springs Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Alice Springs Hospital 22NT 57Australia 71
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Median wait in days for Carpal tunnel release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlice Springs Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–1733not published56
2017–1827not published61
2018–19365762
2019–2011not published70
2020–215not published80
2021–228not published82
2022–2315not published83
2023–2425not published72
2024–2522not published71

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

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