Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Eaglemont area of Victoria was 100 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 100 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 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 118 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 35 days in 2016–17 to 100 days in 2024–25 — up 186% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Box Hill Hospital, about 8 km away, at 56 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
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]	100 days	not published	25 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.

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 1 km away138 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 8 km away56 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 9 km away67 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 9 km away28 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 10 km away57 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 12 km away60 days
The AlfredVIC · about 12 km away49 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away22 days

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

How the wait has changed

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]
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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	Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	35	42	56
2017–18	41	45	61
2018–19	42	41	62
2019–20	66	52	70
2020–21	86	87	80
2021–22	59	85	82
2022–23	161	80	83
2023–24	77	54	72
2024–25	100	53	71

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

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