Surgery Waits

Trigger finger release waiting time at University Hospital Geelong

The median wait for trigger finger release — published by the source as "Trigger finger/thumb release" — at this public hospital in the Geelong area of Victoria was 56 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
56 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
11 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 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 38 days in 2016–17 to 56 days in 2024–25 — up 47% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's On the Park, about 66 km away, at 14 days.

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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
University Hospital Geelong56 daysnot published11 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)58 days7.2%388 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)90 days9.0%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for trigger finger/thumb release by financial year at University Hospital Geelong, compared with Victoria and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25University Hospital Geelong 56VIC 58Australia 90
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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 periodUniversity Hospital Geelong (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17384560
2017–18183862
2018–19not published4272
2019–20585677
2020–21908788
2021–22not published10996
2022–23111107107
2023–24not published6486
2024–25565890

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

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