Surgery Waits

Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Gloucester area of New South Wales was 224 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
224 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
17 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 146 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 79 days in 2018–19 to 224 days in 2024–25 — up 184% — while the national median rose from 62 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Manning Hospital, about 48 km away, at 84 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
Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital224 daysnot published17 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)96 days8.9%2847 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)71 days5.2%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for carpal tunnel release by financial year at Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital 224NSW 96Australia 71
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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 periodGloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published7856
2017–18not published7861
2018–19798562
2019–20not published9170
2020–211069180
2021–22not published9982
2022–2326310483
2023–243258772
2024–252249671

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

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