Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Griffith Base Hospital
Half of patients at Griffith Base Hospital waited 39 days or less for inguinal hernia repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy". This public hospital is in the Griffith 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
- 39 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 37 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 186 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 32 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 68 days in 2011–12 to 39 days in 2024–25 — down 43% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Griffith Base Hospital | 39 days | not published | 37 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 101 days | 8.1% | 5703 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 45 days | 2.6% | 4290 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 73 days | 5.0% | 16694 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 73 days marks the national median.
Wagga Wagga Hospital, NSW · about 152 km away: 274 days
Young Hospital, NSW · about 206 km away: 191 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], VIC · about 219 km away: 106 days
Tumut Hospital, NSW · about 229 km away: 73 days
Northeast Health Wangaratta, VIC · about 232 km away: 46 days
Lachlan Health Service - Parkes, NSW · about 233 km away: 223 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton], VIC · about 239 km away: 57 days
Cowra Health Service, NSW · about 249 km away: 91 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Griffith Base Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Griffith Base Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 68 | 72 | 57 |
| 2012–13 | 56 | 71 | 60 |
| 2013–14 | 53 | 69 | 56 |
| 2014–15 | 78 | 70 | 51 |
| 2015–16 | 58 | 69 | 52 |
| 2016–17 | 48 | 72 | 52 |
| 2017–18 | 73 | 75 | 56 |
| 2018–19 | 49 | 77 | 59 |
| 2019–20 | 42 | 78 | 67 |
| 2020–21 | 55 | 92 | 76 |
| 2021–22 | 63 | 90 | 77 |
| 2022–23 | 42 | 115 | 82 |
| 2023–24 | 44 | 97 | 70 |
| 2024–25 | 39 | 101 | 73 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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