Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Gosford Hospital

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Gosford area of New South Wales was 167 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: 167 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 44 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 140 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 80 days in 2016–17 to 167 days in 2024–25 — up 109% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wyong Hospital, about 22 km away, at 95 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
Gosford Hospital	167 days	not published	44 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.

Wyong HospitalNSW · about 22 km away95 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 38 km away79 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 38 km away87 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 47 km away89 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye HospitalNSW · about 51 km away103 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 52 km away158 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 52 km away105 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 53 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	Gosford Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	80	78	56
2017–18	76	78	61
2018–19	78	85	62
2019–20	81	91	70
2020–21	131	91	80
2021–22	361	99	82
2022–23	263	104	83
2023–24	89	87	72
2024–25	167	96	71

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

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