Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Werribee Mercy Hospital

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Hoppers Crossing area of Victoria was 183 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: 183 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 59 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 15.3%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 143 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 74 days in 2016–17 to 183 days in 2024–25 — up 147% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Williamstown Hospital, about 17 km away, at 50 days. Here, 15.3% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.2%.

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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
Werribee Mercy Hospital	183 days	15.3%	59 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	53 days	3.5%	2456 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.

Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 17 km away50 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 18 km away482 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 20 km away93 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 25 km away57 days
The AlfredVIC · about 25 km away49 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 26 km away67 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 26 km away28 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 29 km away28 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	Werribee Mercy Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	74	42	56
2017–18	74	45	61
2018–19	57	41	62
2019–20	44	52	70
2020–21	120	87	80
2021–22	111	85	82
2022–23	269	80	83
2023–24	209	54	72
2024–25	183	53	71

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

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