Trigger finger release waiting time at The Prince Charles Hospital

The median wait for trigger finger release — published by the source as "Trigger finger/thumb release" — at this public hospital in the Chermside West area of Queensland was 42 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: 42 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 36 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 66 days in 2016–17 to 42 days in 2024–25 — down 36% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 90 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 Trigger finger/thumb release, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Prince Charles Hospital	42 days	not published	36 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	89 days	6.6%	424 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	90 days	9.0%	1696 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.

Royal Brisbane & Women's HospitalQLD · about 6 km away127 days
Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation ServiceQLD · about 7 km away59 days
Queensland Children's HospitalQLD · about 10 km away182 days
Mater Adult HospitalQLD · about 11 km away72 days
Princess Alexandra HospitalQLD · about 12 km away56 days
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee HospitalQLD · about 19 km away77 days
Redland HospitalQLD · about 28 km away42 days
Logan HospitalQLD · about 33 km away91 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 Trigger finger/thumb release, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Prince Charles Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	66	55	60
2017–18	66	70	62
2018–19	56	77	72
2019–20	62	79	77
2020–21	54	84	88
2021–22	38	70	96
2022–23	114	83	107
2023–24	76	79	86
2024–25	42	89	90

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

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