Trigger finger release waiting time at Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service

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 Herston area of Queensland, 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: 59 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 27 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 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 36 days in 2020–21 to 59 days in 2024–25 — up 64% — while the national median rose from 88 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Princess Alexandra Hospital, about 6 km away, at 56 days.

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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
Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service	59 days	not published	27 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	89 days	6.6%	424 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 Brisbane & Women's HospitalQLD · about 0 km away127 days
Queensland Children's HospitalQLD · about 4 km away182 days
Mater Adult HospitalQLD · about 4 km away72 days
Princess Alexandra HospitalQLD · about 6 km away56 days
The Prince Charles HospitalQLD · about 7 km away42 days
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee HospitalQLD · about 12 km away77 days
Redland HospitalQLD · about 24 km away42 days
Logan HospitalQLD · about 27 km away91 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	Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	55	60
2017–18	not reported for this period	70	62
2018–19	not reported for this period	77	72
2019–20	not reported for this period	79	77
2020–21	36	84	88
2021–22	69	70	96
2022–23	52	83	107
2023–24	52	79	86
2024–25	59	89	90

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

All surgery at Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service · Trigger finger release across Australia · Trigger finger release in Queensland