Trigger finger/thumb release waiting time at John Hunter Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Trigger finger/thumb 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: 421 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 64 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 Trigger finger/thumb release, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
John Hunter Hospital	421 days	not published	11 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	157 days	13.2%	509 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.

Belmont HospitalNSW · about 12 km away323 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 26 km away341 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 110 km away75 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye HospitalNSW · about 114 km away347 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 116 km away206 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 117 km away140 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 118 km away87 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 121 km away174 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	John Hunter Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	102	89	60
2017–18	96	97	62
2018–19	68	117	72
2019–20	144	141	77
2020–21	140	138	88
2021–22	101	144	96
2022–23	196	166	107
2023–24	283	140	86
2024–25	421	157	90

What is not here

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

All surgery at John Hunter Hospital · Trigger finger/thumb release across Australia · Trigger finger/thumb release in New South Wales