Surgery Waits

Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Manning Hospital

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Taree South area of New South Wales was 84 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
84 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
61 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
1.6%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 98 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 89 days in 2016–17 to 84 days in 2024–25 — down 6% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Singleton Hospital, about 140 km away, at 24 days. Here, 1.6% 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
Manning Hospital84 days1.6%61 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)96 days8.9%2847 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 Manning Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Manning Hospital 84NSW 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 periodManning Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17897856
2017–18707861
2018–19988562
2019–201689170
2020–212529180
2021–22919982
2022–2312610483
2023–241168772
2024–25849671

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

All surgery at Manning Hospital · Carpal tunnel surgery across Australia · Carpal tunnel surgery in New South Wales