Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Wallaroo area of South Australia was 54 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: 54 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 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 50 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 72 days in 2017–18 to 54 days in 2024–25 — down 25% — while the national median rose from 61 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Clare Hospital, about 91 km away, at 25 days.

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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
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)	54 days	not published	25 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	49 days	2.8%	808 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.

Clare HospitalSA · about 91 km away25 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 127 km away38 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 131 km away110 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 134 km away50 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 140 km away86 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 141 km away47 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 145 km away32 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 149 km away126 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	Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo) (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	33	56
2017–18	72	38	61
2018–19	127	36	62
2019–20	167	45	70
2020–21	182	65	80
2021–22	68	69	82
2022–23	86	72	83
2023–24	80	57	72
2024–25	54	49	71

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

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