Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Bass Coast Health

Median wait, long waits and volumes for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as “Carpal tunnel release” — at this public hospital in the South Dudley area of Victoria, 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: 25 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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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
Bass Coast Health	25 days	not published	26 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	53 days	3.5%	2456 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.

West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 57 km away29 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 64 km away43 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 64 km away48 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 77 km away65 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 82 km away83 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 84 km away44 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 87 km away28 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 89 km away115 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	Bass Coast Health (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	42	56
2017–18	not reported for this period	45	61
2018–19	not reported for this period	41	62
2019–20	not reported for this period	52	70
2020–21	not reported for this period	87	80
2021–22	not reported for this period	85	82
2022–23	not reported for this period	80	83
2023–24	not reported for this period	54	72
2024–25	25	53	71

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

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