Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at St Vincent's On the Park

Median wait, long waits and volumes for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as “Carpal tunnel release” — at this public hospital in the East Melbourne 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: 111 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.8%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 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 229 days in 2022–23 to 28 days in 2024–25 — down 88% — while the national median fell from 83 days to 71 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 1.8% 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
St Vincent's On the Park	28 days	1.8%	111 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 1 km away67 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 2 km away57 days
The AlfredVIC · about 4 km away49 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 8 km away93 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away138 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 9 km away100 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 10 km away50 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 12 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	St Vincent's On the Park (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	42	56
2017–18	not reported for this period	45	61
2018–19	not reported for this period	41	62
2019–20	not reported for this period	52	70
2020–21	not reported for this period	87	80
2021–22	not reported for this period	85	82
2022–23	229	80	83
2023–24	34	54	72
2024–25	28	53	71

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

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