Trigger finger release waiting time at Busselton Health Campus

Median wait, long waits and volumes for trigger finger release — published by the source as “Trigger finger/thumb release” — at this public hospital in the West Busselton 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: 100 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 21 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 36 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 214 days in 2018–19 to 100 days in 2024–25 — down 53% — while the national median rose from 72 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, about 182 km away, at 55 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Trigger finger/thumb release, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Busselton Health Campus	100 days	not published	21 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	96 days	10.6%	216 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	90 days	9.0%	1696 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.

Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 157 km away139 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 182 km away55 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 192 km away109 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 193 km away239 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 196 km away111 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 217 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 Trigger finger/thumb release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Busselton Health Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	51	60
2017–18	not published	52	62
2018–19	214	79	72
2019–20	173	71	77
2020–21	77	71	88
2021–22	106	92	96
2022–23	122	114	107
2023–24	86	92	86
2024–25	100	96	90

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

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