Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Royal Adelaide 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 Adelaide 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: 47 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 90 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.7%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 33 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 60 days in 2016–17 to 47 days in 2024–25 — down 22% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gawler Health Service, about 39 km away, at 38 days. Here, 6.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.2%.

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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
Royal Adelaide Hospital	47 days	6.7%	90 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.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away50 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away126 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away86 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 21 km away110 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 26 km away99 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 39 km away38 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 63 km away32 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 67 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	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	60	33	56
2017–18	134	38	61
2018–19	57	36	62
2019–20	84	45	70
2020–21	122	65	80
2021–22	115	69	82
2022–23	97	72	83
2023–24	58	57	72
2024–25	47	49	71

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

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