Trigger finger/thumb release waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

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: 96 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 14 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 33 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
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]	96 days	not published	14 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	58 days	7.2%	388 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 Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 1 km away64 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away80 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 2 km away14 days
The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away59 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 13 km away473 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 14 km away52 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 17 km away16 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 23 km away101 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 Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	205	45	60
2017–18	not published	38	62
2018–19	not published	42	72
2019–20	not published	56	77
2020–21	not published	87	88
2021–22	not published	109	96
2022–23	not published	107	107
2023–24	107	64	86
2024–25	96	58	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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