Surgery Waits

Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Sandringham Hospital

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Sandringham area of Victoria was 28 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
28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
40 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 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 33 days in 2016–17 to 28 days in 2024–25 — down 15% — 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
Sandringham Hospital28 daysnot published40 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)53 days3.5%2456 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 Sandringham Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Sandringham Hospital 28VIC 53Australia 71
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Median wait in days for Carpal tunnel release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSandringham Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17334256
2017–18564561
2018–19284162
2019–20665270
2020–211138780
2021–22not published8582
2022–23608083
2023–24185472
2024–25285371

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

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