Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Westmead 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 Westmead 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: 72 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 62 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 21.0%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 82 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 109 days in 2016–17 to 72 days in 2024–25 — down 34% — 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. Here, 21.0% 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
Westmead Hospital	72 days	21.0%	62 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.

Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 7 km away309 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 7 km away88 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 10 km away282 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away158 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 14 km away206 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away117 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 15 km away237 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 16 km away79 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	Westmead Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	109	78	56
2017–18	85	78	61
2018–19	88	85	62
2019–20	99	91	70
2020–21	207	91	80
2021–22	227	99	82
2022–23	326	104	83
2023–24	247	87	72
2024–25	72	96	71

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

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