Trigger finger release waiting time at Belmont Hospital

The median wait for trigger finger release — published by the source as "Trigger finger/thumb release" — at this public hospital in the Valentine area of New South Wales was 323 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: 323 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 29 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 58 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 111 days in 2016–17 to 323 days in 2024–25 — up 191% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal North Shore Hospital, about 98 km away, at 75 days.

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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
Belmont Hospital	323 days	not published	29 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	157 days	13.2%	509 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.

John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 12 km away421 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 34 km away341 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 98 km away75 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye HospitalNSW · about 102 km away347 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 104 km away206 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 106 km away140 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 106 km away87 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 109 km away174 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	Belmont Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	111	89	60
2017–18	83	97	62
2018–19	171	117	72
2019–20	175	141	77
2020–21	97	138	88
2021–22	76	144	96
2022–23	118	166	107
2023–24	84	140	86
2024–25	323	157	90

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

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