Carpal tunnel surgery waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

The median wait for carpal tunnel surgery — published by the source as "Carpal tunnel release" — at this public hospital in the Woodville South area of South Australia was 50 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: 50 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 83 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 41 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 50 days in 2024–25 — up 52% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 71 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 6 km away, at 47 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
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	50 days	0.0%	83 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 6 km away47 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 15 km away86 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 16 km away126 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away110 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 29 km away99 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 38 km away38 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 64 km away32 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 73 km away30 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	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	33	33	56
2017–18	61	38	61
2018–19	78	36	62
2019–20	86	45	70
2020–21	93	65	80
2021–22	106	69	82
2022–23	153	72	83
2023–24	97	57	72
2024–25	50	49	71

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

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