Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Lyell McEwin 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 Elizabeth Vale area of South 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: 110 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 34 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 123 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 68 days in 2016–17 to 110 days in 2024–25 — up 62% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Modbury Hospital, about 10 km away, at 86 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
Lyell McEwin Hospital	110 days	not published	34 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	49 days	2.8%	808 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.

Modbury HospitalSA · about 10 km away86 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 19 km away38 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 19 km away50 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 21 km away47 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 32 km away126 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 45 km away32 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 46 km away99 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 70 km away30 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	Lyell McEwin Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	68	33	56
2017–18	41	38	61
2018–19	69	36	62
2019–20	78	45	70
2020–21	107	65	80
2021–22	99	69	82
2022–23	100	72	83
2023–24	65	57	72
2024–25	110	49	71

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

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