Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Angaston District 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 Penrice area of South Australia, 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: 32 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 28 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 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 32 days in 2024–25 — up 52% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, about 73 km away, at 30 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
Angaston District Hospital	32 days	not published	28 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	49 days	2.8%	808 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.

Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 29 km away38 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 45 km away110 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 50 km away86 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 63 km away47 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 64 km away50 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 73 km away30 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 73 km away126 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 85 km away25 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Carpal tunnel release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Angaston District Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	21	33	56
2017–18	21	38	61
2018–19	21	36	62
2019–20	21	45	70
2020–21	19	65	80
2021–22	not published	69	82
2022–23	18	72	83
2023–24	15	57	72
2024–25	32	49	71

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

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