Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at South Coast District Hospital

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Victor Harbor area of South Australia was 14 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: 14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 39 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 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 12 days in 2016–17 to 14 days in 2024–25 — up 17% — 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
South Coast District Hospital	14 days	not published	39 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	49 days	2.8%	808 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.

Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 48 km away99 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 60 km away126 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 71 km away47 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 76 km away50 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 78 km away30 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 81 km away86 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 91 km away110 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 108 km away38 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	South Coast District Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	12	33	56
2017–18	9	38	61
2018–19	14	36	62
2019–20	12	45	70
2020–21	5	65	80
2021–22	6	69	82
2022–23	33	72	83
2023–24	53	57	72
2024–25	14	49	71

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

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