Surgery Waits

Hernia repair waiting time at Esperance Hospital

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Esperance area of Western Australia was 265 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
265 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
14 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 150 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 71 days in 2016–17 to 265 days in 2024–25 — up 273% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Kalgoorlie Health Campus, about 349 km away, at 45 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
Esperance Hospital265 daysnot published14 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 1000 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 Esperance Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Esperance Hospital 265WA 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 periodEsperance Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17714363
2017–18905667
2018–19not published5869
2019–201356978
2020–211217892
2021–221068997
2022–2329994108
2023–243497687
2024–252657886

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

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