Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Lithgow 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 South Littleton area of New South Wales, 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: 83 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 20 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 96 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 78 days in 2016–17 to 83 days in 2024–25 — up 6% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hawkesbury Hospital, about 65 km away, at 66 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
Lithgow Hospital	83 days	not published	20 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	96 days	8.9%	2847 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.

Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 53 km away331 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 61 km away253 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 65 km away66 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 71 km away237 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 79 km away309 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 82 km away282 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 87 km away72 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 88 km away206 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	Lithgow Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	78	78	56
2017–18	84	78	61
2018–19	124	85	62
2019–20	82	91	70
2020–21	71	91	80
2021–22	105	99	82
2022–23	52	104	83
2023–24	75	87	72
2024–25	83	96	71

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

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