Trigger finger release waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

The median wait for trigger finger release — published by the source as "Trigger finger/thumb release" — at this public hospital in the Woodville South area of South Australia was 73 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: 73 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 16 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 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 78 days in 2018–19 to 73 days in 2024–25 — down 6% — while the national median rose from 72 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 6 km away, at 47 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
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	73 days	not published	16 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	81 days	4.6%	153 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 6 km away47 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 7 km away113 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 16 km away141 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 29 km away107 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	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	40	60
2017–18	not published	32	62
2018–19	78	31	72
2019–20	96	38	77
2020–21	not published	62	88
2021–22	137	102	96
2022–23	not published	70	107
2023–24	not published	64	86
2024–25	73	81	90

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

All surgery at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital · Trigger finger release across Australia · Trigger finger release in South Australia