Trigger finger/thumb release waiting time at Women's and Children's Hospital

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: 113 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 22 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 44 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
Women's and Children's Hospital	113 days	not published	22 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	81 days	4.6%	153 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 Adelaide HospitalSA · about 2 km away47 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 7 km away73 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 13 km away141 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 27 km away107 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	Women's and Children's Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	40	60
2017–18	not published	32	62
2018–19	not reported for this period	31	72
2019–20	not published	38	77
2020–21	not published	62	88
2021–22	not reported for this period	102	96
2022–23	not reported for this period	70	107
2023–24	not published	64	86
2024–25	113	81	90

What is not here

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

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