Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Bowral Hospital

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Bowral area of New South Wales was 53 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: 53 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 21 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 47 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 182 days in 2016–17 to 53 days in 2024–25 — down 71% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Bowral Hospital	53 days	not published	21 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	96 days	8.9%	2847 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.

Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 39 km away88 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 43 km away127 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 45 km away167 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 71 km away112 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 78 km away206 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 82 km away117 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 82 km away282 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 85 km away253 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	Bowral Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	182	78	56
2017–18	153	78	61
2018–19	113	85	62
2019–20	180	91	70
2020–21	255	91	80
2021–22	176	99	82
2022–23	100	104	83
2023–24	48	87	72
2024–25	53	96	71

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

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