Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Cessnock Hospital

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Cessnock area of New South Wales was 54 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: 54 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 50 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 27 days in 2016–17 to 54 days in 2024–25 — up 100% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Singleton Hospital, about 33 km away, at 24 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
Cessnock Hospital	54 days	not published	12 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.

Maitland HospitalNSW · about 22 km away340 days
Singleton HospitalNSW · about 33 km away24 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 34 km away365 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 36 km away105 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 50 km away95 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 66 km away167 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 100 km away79 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 100 km away66 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	Cessnock Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	27	78	56
2017–18	25	78	61
2018–19	38	85	62
2019–20	20	91	70
2020–21	31	91	80
2021–22	not published	99	82
2022–23	18	104	83
2023–24	not published	87	72
2024–25	54	96	71

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

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