Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Armidale 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 Armidale area of New South Wales, 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: 48 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 48 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 34 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 57 days in 2016–17 to 48 days in 2024–25 — down 16% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Armidale Hospital	48 days	not published	48 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	96 days	8.9%	2847 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.

Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 94 km away111 days
Kempsey District HospitalNSW · about 127 km away125 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 140 km away283 days
Wauchope District Memorial HospitalNSW · about 147 km away128 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 155 km away49 days
Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 157 km away254 days
Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial HospitalNSW · about 169 km away224 days
Manning HospitalNSW · about 173 km away84 days

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

How the wait has changed

Armidale Hospital
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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	Armidale Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	57	78	56
2017–18	58	78	61
2018–19	76	85	62
2019–20	171	91	70
2020–21	72	91	80
2021–22	100	99	82
2022–23	42	104	83
2023–24	49	87	72
2024–25	48	96	71

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

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