Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Yarra Ranges Health

Median wait, long waits and volumes for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as “Carpal tunnel release” — at this public hospital in the Lilydale 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: 60 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 48 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 160 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 61 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 170 days in 2021–22 to 60 days in 2024–25 — down 65% — while the national median fell from 82 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood], about 10 km away, at 52 days.

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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
Yarra Ranges Health	60 days	not published	48 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.

Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 10 km away52 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 16 km away83 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 19 km away60 days
Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley HealthVIC · about 20 km away53 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 21 km away56 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 25 km away44 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 26 km away100 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 27 km away138 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	Yarra Ranges Health (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	170	85	82
2022–23	131	80	83
2023–24	79	54	72
2024–25	60	53	71

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

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