Trigger finger/thumb release waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

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: 140 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 17 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 48 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
The Children's Hospital at Westmead	140 days	not published	17 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	157 days	13.2%	509 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.

Auburn HospitalNSW · about 8 km away174 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away206 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 10 km away284 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away101 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 18 km away75 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye HospitalNSW · about 22 km away347 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 26 km away87 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 106 km away323 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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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	The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	91	89	60
2017–18	160	97	62
2018–19	215	117	72
2019–20	215	141	77
2020–21	95	138	88
2021–22	130	144	96
2022–23	270	166	107
2023–24	312	140	86
2024–25	140	157	90

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

All surgery at The Children's Hospital at Westmead · Trigger finger/thumb release across Australia · Trigger finger/thumb release in New South Wales