Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Port Lincoln Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as “Carpal tunnel release” — at this public hospital in the Port Lincoln 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: 27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 27 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 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 19 days in 2016–17 to 27 days in 2024–25 — up 42% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Port Lincoln Health Service	27 days	not published	27 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.

Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)SA · about 186 km away54 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 246 km away50 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 246 km away99 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 250 km away126 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 251 km away47 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 257 km away110 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 260 km away86 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 266 km away38 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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	Port Lincoln Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	19	33	56
2017–18	20	38	61
2018–19	25	36	62
2019–20	23	45	70
2020–21	28	65	80
2021–22	25	69	82
2022–23	22	72	83
2023–24	30	57	72
2024–25	27	49	71

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

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