Surgery Waits

Hernia repair waiting time at Albany Hospital

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia was 74 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
74 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
39 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 169 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 56 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 68 days in 2016–17 to 74 days in 2024–25 — up 9% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peel Health Campus, about 339 km away, at 42 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Albany Hospital74 daysnot published39 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)78 days5.9%1430 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)86 days6.9%12195 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 86 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for herniorrhaphy by financial year at Albany Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Albany Hospital 74WA 78Australia 86
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlbany Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17684363
2017–18685667
2018–19715869
2019–201226978
2020–211367892
2021–221448997
2022–237394108
2023–24907687
2024–25747886

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

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