Carpal tunnel release waiting time at Geraldton 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: 98 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 116 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
Geraldton Hospital	98 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.

Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 347 km away59 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 364 km away68 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 373 km away120 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 373 km away248 days
Northam HospitalWA · about 375 km away36 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away63 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away57 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 396 km away57 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.

How the wait has changed

Geraldton Hospital
WA
Australia

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	Geraldton Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	54	51	56
2017–18	64	51	61
2018–19	76	56	62
2019–20	111	63	70
2020–21	147	71	80
2021–22	142	83	82
2022–23	151	91	83
2023–24	109	76	72
2024–25	98	71	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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