Carpal tunnel release waiting time at Broken Hill Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Carpal tunnel release at this public hospital, 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: 189 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 17 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 144 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Carpal tunnel release, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Broken Hill Hospital	189 days	not published	17 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	96 days	8.9%	2847 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.

Riverland General HospitalSA · about 271 km away41 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 338 km away25 days
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health ServicesSA · about 352 km away20 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 361 km away32 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 387 km away38 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 405 km away110 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 407 km away30 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 411 km away86 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

Broken Hill 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	Broken Hill Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	43	78	56
2017–18	40	78	61
2018–19	54	85	62
2019–20	not published	91	70
2020–21	78	91	80
2021–22	not published	99	82
2022–23	55	104	83
2023–24	33	87	72
2024–25	189	96	71

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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