Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Shoalhaven 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 West Nowra area of New South Wales, 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: 167 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 39 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 140 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 346 days in 2016–17 to 167 days in 2024–25 — down 52% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Shellharbour Hospital, about 41 km away, at 88 days.

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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
Shoalhaven Hospital	167 days	not published	39 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	96 days	8.9%	2847 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.

Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 41 km away88 days
Bowral HospitalNSW · about 45 km away53 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 56 km away127 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 82 km away112 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 110 km away206 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 111 km away117 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 115 km away271 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 116 km away282 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	Shoalhaven Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	346	78	56
2017–18	336	78	61
2018–19	264	85	62
2019–20	135	91	70
2020–21	349	91	80
2021–22	260	99	82
2022–23	117	104	83
2023–24	70	87	72
2024–25	167	96	71

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

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