Trigger finger release waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for trigger finger release — published by the source as “Trigger finger/thumb 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: 30 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 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 58 days in 2016–17 to 47 days in 2024–25 — down 19% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 90 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 Trigger finger/thumb release, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	47 days	not published	30 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	81 days	4.6%	153 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.

Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 2 km away113 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away73 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away141 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 26 km away107 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 Trigger finger/thumb release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	58	40	60
2017–18	78	32	62
2018–19	28	31	72
2019–20	117	38	77
2020–21	72	62	88
2021–22	150	102	96
2022–23	81	70	107
2023–24	68	64	86
2024–25	47	81	90

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

All surgery at Royal Adelaide Hospital · Trigger finger release across Australia · Trigger finger release in South Australia