Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Bunbury 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 College Grove area of Western 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: 69 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 37 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 80 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 89 days in 2016–17 to 69 days in 2024–25 — down 22% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Busselton Health Campus, about 44 km away, at 62 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
Bunbury Hospital	69 days	not published	37 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	71 days	3.6%	1198 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.

Busselton Health CampusWA · about 44 km away62 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 93 km away35 days
Warren HospitalWA · about 108 km away33 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 120 km away133 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 142 km away57 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 146 km away57 days
Narrogin HospitalWA · about 149 km away82 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 154 km away63 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	Bunbury Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	89	51	56
2017–18	110	51	61
2018–19	96	56	62
2019–20	56	63	70
2020–21	85	71	80
2021–22	113	83	82
2022–23	97	91	83
2023–24	64	76	72
2024–25	69	71	71

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

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