Trigger finger release waiting times in Australian public hospitals

The national median wait for trigger finger release in Australian public hospitals was 90 days in 2024–25 — from 14 days at St Vincent's On the Park to 473 days at Sunshine Hospital. The source publishes this surgery as “Trigger finger/thumb release”.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Across Australia, the median wait for trigger finger release in public hospitals was 90 days in 2024–25, from 1696 surgeries. 9.0% of people waited more than 365 days. 65 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Trigger finger/thumb release” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.

Trigger finger/thumb release in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Victoria	58 days	7.2%	388 surgeries
2	South Australia	81 days	4.6%	153 surgeries
3	Queensland	89 days	6.6%	424 surgeries
4	Western Australia	96 days	10.6%	216 surgeries
5	New South Wales	157 days	13.2%	509 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	6 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
VIC
SA
QLD

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Median wait in days for Trigger finger/thumb release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	VIC (days)	SA (days)	QLD (days)
2016–17	60	45	40	55
2017–18	62	38	32	70
2018–19	72	42	31	77
2019–20	77	56	38	79
2020–21	88	87	62	84
2021–22	96	109	102	70
2022–23	107	107	70	83
2023–24	86	64	64	79
2024–25	90	58	81	89

Common questions

How long is the wait for trigger finger release in a public hospital?

The national median was 90 days in 2024–25 — half of people waited less than that, half waited longer. State medians ranged from 58 days in Victoria to 157 days in New South Wales.

Which public hospital has the shortest wait for trigger finger release?

Of the 65 public hospitals that published a median for 2024–25, St Vincent's On the Park reported the shortest (14 days) and Sunshine Hospital the longest (473 days). A shorter median is not a recommendation — how to read these figures.

How many people waited more than a year?

9.0% of people who had trigger finger release in an Australian public hospital in 2024–25 waited more than 365 days.

What is not here

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

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.