Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Liverpool 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 Warwick Farm 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: 206 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 19 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 145 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 105 days in 2016–17 to 206 days in 2024–25 — up 96% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, about 8 km away, at 117 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
Liverpool Hospital	206 days	not published	19 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.

Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 7 km away282 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 8 km away117 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 12 km away88 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 14 km away72 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 15 km away271 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 16 km away309 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 18 km away158 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 20 km away237 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	Liverpool Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	105	78	56
2017–18	88	78	61
2018–19	167	85	62
2019–20	98	91	70
2020–21	219	91	80
2021–22	366	99	82
2022–23	340	104	83
2023–24	320	87	72
2024–25	206	96	71

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

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