Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Sandringham 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 Sandringham area of Victoria, 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: 28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 40 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 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 33 days in 2016–17 to 28 days in 2024–25 — down 15% — 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
Sandringham Hospital	28 days	not published	40 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	53 days	3.5%	2456 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.

Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 6 km away115 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 13 km away44 days
The AlfredVIC · about 13 km away49 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 15 km away50 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 17 km away28 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 18 km away67 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 18 km away65 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 19 km away56 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	Sandringham Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	33	42	56
2017–18	56	45	61
2018–19	28	41	62
2019–20	66	52	70
2020–21	113	87	80
2021–22	not published	85	82
2022–23	60	80	83
2023–24	18	54	72
2024–25	28	53	71

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

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