Surgery Waits

Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Angliss Hospital

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Upper Ferntree Gully area of Victoria was 83 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
83 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
90 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%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 96 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 33 days in 2016–17 to 83 days in 2024–25 — up 152% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood], about 11 km away, at 52 days. Here, 0.0% 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
Angliss Hospital83 days0.0%90 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 Angliss Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Angliss Hospital 83VIC 53Australia 71
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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 periodAngliss Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17334256
2017–18414561
2018–19344162
2019–20355270
2020–211458780
2021–22not published8582
2022–23308083
2023–24295472
2024–25835371

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

All surgery at Angliss Hospital · Carpal tunnel surgery across Australia · Carpal tunnel surgery in Victoria