Trigger finger/thumb release waiting time at Perth Children's 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: 239 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 28 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 55 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
Perth Children's Hospital	239 days	not published	28 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	96 days	10.6%	216 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away111 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 11 km away109 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away55 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away63 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 36 km away139 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 193 km away100 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Perth Children's Hospital
WA
Australia

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	Perth Children's Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	51	60
2017–18	not reported for this period	52	62
2018–19	123	79	72
2019–20	67	71	77
2020–21	106	71	88
2021–22	203	92	96
2022–23	228	114	107
2023–24	169	92	86
2024–25	239	96	90

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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