Trigger finger release waiting time at Frankston Hospital

The median wait for trigger finger release — published by the source as "Trigger finger/thumb release" — at this public hospital in the Frankston area of Victoria was 45 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: 45 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 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 6 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 88 days in 2016–17 to 45 days in 2024–25 — down 49% — 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 40 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
Frankston Hospital	45 days	not published	15 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	58 days	7.2%	388 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.

Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 1 km away57 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 21 km away70 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 25 km away101 days
The AlfredVIC · about 36 km away59 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 37 km away52 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 40 km away14 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 41 km away80 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 42 km away96 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	Frankston Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	88	45	60
2017–18	96	38	62
2018–19	193	42	72
2019–20	170	56	77
2020–21	85	87	88
2021–22	104	109	96
2022–23	227	107	107
2023–24	100	64	86
2024–25	45	58	90

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

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