Surgery Waits

Hiatus hernia repair waiting time at Gosford Hospital

Half of patients at Gosford Hospital waited 117 days or less for hiatus hernia repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia". This public hospital is in the Gosford area of New South Wales.

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
117 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
23 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 41 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 91 days in 2018–19 to 117 days in 2024–25 — up 29% — while the national median rose from 78 days to 88 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 52 km away, at 41 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Gosford Hospital117 daysnot published23 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)104 days14.1%511 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)88 days9.2%1170 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 88 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for repair of obstructing hiatus hernia by financial year at Gosford Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gosford Hospital 117NSW 104Australia 88
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGosford Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published8066
2017–18not published8279
2018–19917978
2019–20not published8381
2020–215611891
2021–2231112698
2022–23285131114
2023–242199789
2024–2511710488

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

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