Surgery Waits

Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Deniliquin Hospital

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Deniliquin area of New South Wales was 1 day 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
1 day2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 25 days in 2016–17 to 1 day in 2024–25 — down 96% — 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.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Carpal tunnel release" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Carpal tunnel release, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Deniliquin Hospital1 daynot published10 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)96 days8.9%2847 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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for carpal tunnel release by financial year at Deniliquin Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Deniliquin Hospital 1NSW 96Australia 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 periodDeniliquin Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17257856
2017–18327861
2018–19438562
2019–20499170
2020–21279180
2021–22499982
2022–23not published10483
2023–24648772
2024–2519671

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

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